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Many of the mutualisms discussed earlier are geographically localised and reflect some form of coadaptation between partners within local environments. Those ecological specialists or associates are moulded by the local ecological contexts, and their persistence depends on continuity of the contexts in which those partnerships have been developed. Plants and insects are amongst the predominant groups of alien invasive species throughout the world’s terrestrial biomes, so that novel encounters between species are widespread. These new interactions raise numerous conservation concerns, including disruptions to long-evolved prior associations between native species in the invaded environments.
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New, T.R. (2017). Impacts of Alien Invasive Species. In: Mutualisms and Insect Conservation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58292-4_8
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