Department of Biological Sciences, Behavior, Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Section, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790-4120, USA.
Ecol Lett. 2005 May;8(5):558-74. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00755.
Investigations of biological invasions focus on patterns and processes that are related to introduction, establishment, spread and impacts of introduced species. This review focuses on the ecological interactions operating during invasions by the most prominent group of insect vectors of disease, mosquitoes. First, we review characteristics of non-native mosquito species that have established viable populations, and those invasive species that have spread widely and had major impacts, testing whether biotic characteristics are associated with the transition from established non-native to invasive. Second, we review the roles of interspecific competition, apparent competition, predation, intraguild predation and climatic limitation as causes of impacts on residents or as barriers to invasion. We concentrate on the best-studied invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus, evaluating the application of basic ecological theory to invasions by Aedes albopictus. We develop a model based on observations of Aedes albopictus for effects of resource competition and predation as barriers to invasion, evaluating which community and ecosystem characteristics favour invasion. Third, we evaluate the ways in which invasive mosquitoes have contributed to outbreaks of human and animal disease, considering specifically whether invasive mosquitoes create novel health threats, or modify disease transmission for existing pathogen-host systems.
生物入侵的研究重点是与引入、建立、传播和引入物种的影响相关的模式和过程。本综述重点关注疾病最重要的昆虫病媒蚊子群体在入侵过程中发生的生态相互作用。首先，我们回顾了已建立可行种群的非本地蚊子物种的特征，以及那些广泛传播并产生重大影响的入侵物种，检验生物特征是否与从已建立的非本地物种向入侵物种的转变有关。其次，我们回顾了种间竞争、表型竞争、捕食、种内捕食和气候限制作为对居民产生影响的原因或作为入侵障碍的作用。我们集中研究了研究最充分的入侵蚊子白纹伊蚊，评估了基本生态理论在白纹伊蚊入侵中的应用。我们基于对白纹伊蚊的观察，建立了一个模型，用于评估资源竞争和捕食作为入侵障碍的影响，评估哪些群落和生态系统特征有利于入侵。第三，我们评估了入侵蚊子对人类和动物疾病爆发的影响，具体考虑入侵蚊子是否会造成新的健康威胁，或改变现有病原体-宿主系统的疾病传播。
