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As we have seen in the previous chapter, the presence of invasive species is often associated with the extinction of native species (Wilcove et al. 1998; Ricciardi 2004). Although the generality of this fact has been questioned by some authors (Didham et al. 2005; Davis 2009), there is no doubt that once arrived and established, invasive species can affect to a greater or lesser extent the structure and functioning of the ecosystems they invade (Vitousek et al. 1987; Chesson 2000; Crooks 2002).

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Jaksic, F.M., Castro, S.A. (2021). Ecological Impacts. In: Biological Invasions in the South American Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56379-0_7

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