ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e107394
The Enemy Release Hypothesis
Tina Heger‡§|¶, Jonathan M. Jeschke‡§|, Maud Bernard-Verdier‡§|, Camille L. Musseau‡§|, Daniel Mietchen#¤§«»˄‡ Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany§ Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany| Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany¶ Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany# Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE), Jena, Germany¤ Ronin Institute of Independent Scholarship, Montclair, United States of America« Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany» EvoMRI Communications, Jena, Germany˄ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States of America
Corresponding author: Daniel Mietchen ( daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com ) © Tina Heger, Jonathan Jeschke, Maud Bernard-Verdier, Camille Musseau, Daniel Mietchen. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Heger T, Jeschke JM, Bernard-Verdier M, Musseau CL, Mietchen D (2023) The Enemy Release Hypothesis. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e107394 |  |
Abstract
The enemy release hypothesis is a major and well-known hypothesis in invasion biology. Building on a summary of different previous definitions, we provide the following revised definition: “A reduced pressure by enemies in the non-native range positively affects invasion success.” Further, we suggest formalizing the hypothesis in the basic form ‘subject - relationship - object’ to allow for disambiguating the different existing meanings and enhancing their usability by machines.
Keywords
formalized hypotheses, invasion biology, nanopublications