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The implementation of habitat destruction methods that promote native survival under invasion

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Controlling invasive alien species invasion and maintaining the survival of native species have attracted increasing attention, and habitat destruction can be used to achieve these aims. However, whether and how to promote the long-term survival of native species facing invaders through the use of habitat destruction remain unclear. In this study, we developed a spatially explicit simulation model in which invaders and natives were exposed to habitat destruction with different properties, including the spatial structure and the introduction time of habitat destruction, the interval between two destruction events, and the proportion of destroyed habitat. The results showed the following: (1) introducing habitat destruction could promote the long-term survival of native species, especially for a clustered initial spatial distribution of species or long-distance dispersal; (2) the positive effect of habitat destruction on the survival of native species occurred only for a period of time after introduction, such that the destroyed habitats gradually encompassed natives and separated them from invaders, prior to which habitat destruction substantially decreased the abundance of native species; (3) intermediate to high levels of habitat destruction were the most beneficial to the protection of native species for the clustered spatial distribution of species at the initial time or the short dispersal distance; (4) and even when ignoring the proportion of destroyed habitats, introducing spatially dispersed habitat destruction at an earlier time and shortening the interval between two habitat destruction events were very beneficial to the protection of natives. These insights can help facilitate the protection of natives under invasion by adjusting the implementation method of habitat destruction.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, PR China (2682021ZTPY044), the project of National Natural Science Foundation of China: "Investigating the coevolution of species with niche construction (31670391)", and the project of talents launch in scientific research development fund for Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University (2021LFR012).

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Funding was provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant NO. 31670391), Talents launch in scientific research development fund for Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University (Grant No. 2021LFR012) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (CN)(Grant No. 2682021ZTPY044).

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Yang, Y., Liu, H. The implementation of habitat destruction methods that promote native survival under invasion. Biol Invasions 25, 1421–1439 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-022-02985-2

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