Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Transferencia Tecnológica en Recursos Marinos Almirante Storni (CIMAS), San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro, Argentina.
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Conserv Biol. 2020 Apr;34(2):373-377. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13406. Epub 2019 Aug 22.
A species is not native outside its native range, but native range is not precisely defined. The invasion literature contains wide discussion of the core concepts such as naturalization, invasiveness, and ecological impact, but the concept of native range has received so little attention that a formal definition does not exist. I considered, among other impediments to a formal definition of native range, the sometimes arbitrariness of the spatial and temporal limits assigned to native range. Broad questions that remain include whether invasion theory can be used to define the native range for species without non-native ranges.
一个物种不在其原生范围之外就是非本地的，但原生范围并没有被精确定义。入侵文献广泛讨论了自然归化、入侵性和生态影响等核心概念，但原生范围的概念很少受到关注，以至于没有正式的定义。除了原生范围的时空限制有时具有任意性等其他障碍外，我还考虑了其他因素。仍然存在广泛的问题，包括入侵理论是否可用于定义没有非原生范围的物种的原生范围。
