Rarely naturalized, but widespread and even invasive: the paradox of a popular pet terrapin expansion in Eurasia
Reshetnikov A.N. Zibrova M.G. Ayaz D. Bhattarai S. Borodin O.V. Borzée A. Brejcha J. Çiçek K. Dimaki M. Doronin I.V. Drobenkov S.M. Gichikhanova U.A. Gladkova A.Y. Gordeev D.A. Ioannidis Y. Ilyukh M.P. Interesova E.A. Jadhav T.D. Karabanov D.P. Khabibullin V.F. Khabilov T.K. Khan M.M.H. Kidov A.A. Klimov A.S. Kochetkov D.N. Kolbintsev V.G. Kuzmin S.L. Lotiev K.Y. Louppova N.E. Lvov V.D. Lyapkov S.M. Martynenko I.M. Maslova I.V. Masroor R. Mazanaeva L.F. Milko D.A. Milto K.D. Mozaffari O. Nguyen T.Q. Novitsky R.V. Petrovskiy A.B. Prelovskiy V.A. Serbin V.V. Shi H.-T. Skalon N.V. Struijk R.P.J.H. Taniguchi M. Tarkhnishvili D. Tsurkan V.F. Tyutenkov O.Y. Ushakov M.V. Vekhov D.A. Xiao F. Yakimov A.V. Yakovleva T.I. Yang P. Zeleev D.F. Petrosyan V.G.
2023Pensoft Publishers
NeoBiota
2023#8191 - 127 pp.
The North American terrapin, the red-eared slider, has globally recognized invasive status. We built a new extensive database using our own original and literature data on the ecology of this reptile, representing information on 1477 water bodies throughout Eurasia over the last 50 years. The analysis reveals regions of earliest introductions and long-term spatio-temporal dynamics of the expansion covering now 68 Eurasian countries, including eight countries reported here for the first time. We established also long-term trends in terms of numbers of terrapins per aquatic site, habitat occupation, and reproduction success. Our investigation has revealed differences in the ecology of the red-eared slider in different parts of Eurasia. The most prominent expression of diverse signs of invasion success (higher portion of inhabited natural water bodies, higher number of individuals per water body, successful overwintering, occurrence of juvenile individuals, successful reproduction, and establishment of populations) are typical for Europe, West Asia and East Asia and tend to be restricted to coastal regions and islands. Reproduction records coincide well with the predicted potential range based on climatic requirements but records of successful wintering have a wider distribution. This invader provides an excellent and possibly unique (among animals) example of wide alien distribution, without the establishment of reproducing populations, but through the recruitment of new individuals to rising pseudopopulations due to additional releases. Therefore, alongside the potential reproduction range, a cost-effective strategy for population control must take in account the geographical area of successful wintering.
Alien species , biological invasions , global change , invasion ecology , nature conservation , wintering
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Zoology Section
Nepal Conservation and Research Center
Ulyanovsk
Laboratory of Animal Behaviour and Conservation
Department of Philosophy and History of Science
Goulandris Natural History Museum
St. Petersburg
Science-Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus for Bioresources
Makhachkala
Borisovka
Volgograd
Ecostudies PC
Stavropol
Tomsk
Department of Zoology
Borok
Ufa
Institute of Natural Sciences of Khujand State University
Jahangirnagar University
Voronezh
Arkhara
Aksu-Zhabagly Nature Reserve
Sochi
Nalchik
Rostov-on-Don
Vladivostok
Zoological Sciences Division
Institute of Biology National Academy of Sciences
Aria Herpetological Institute
Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources
Irkutsk
Taman
Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands of Ministry of Education
Kemerovo
Reptile
Nature Recovery Co.
School of Natural Sciences and Medicine
Institut of Zoology
Liaoning Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Aquatic Animal Diseases
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