Corresponding author: Florencia Yannelli ( florenciayannelli@gmail.com ) © Florencia Yannelli, Wayne Dawson, Mark van Kleunen, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Tina Heger. 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:
Yannelli F, Dawson W, van Kleunen M, Jeschke JM, Heger T (2024) Hypothesis Descriptions: Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e140550 |
In this contribution of the Hypothesis Description series, we provide an overview of one of the longest-standing hypotheses in invasion science: Darwin's naturalization hypothesis. We present a brief summary of past definitions and propose the revised definition “low phylogenetic similarity between non-native species and the recipient community increases invasion success”. This formulation follows the basic form ‘subject – relationship – object’, enabling clarity for future research and computational applications in invasion biology. We also provide formalized definitions for previous formulations of the hypothesis and identify both related and opposite hypotheses to Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis.