Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117543, Republic of Singapore.
Ecol Lett. 2020 Nov;23(11):1725-1726. doi: 10.1111/ele.13585. Epub 2020 Aug 26.
Ellner et al. (2020) state that identifying the mechanisms producing positive invasion growth rates (IGR) is useful in characterising species persistence. We agree about the importance of the sign of IGR as a binary indicator of persistence, but question whether its magnitude provides much information once the sign is given.
埃勒纳等人(2020 年)指出,确定产生正入侵增长率(IGR)的机制对于描述物种的持久性很有用。我们同意 IGR 的符号作为持久性的二进制指标的重要性,但怀疑一旦给出符号,其幅度是否提供了太多信息。