Invasive alien species are widely recognised as significant drivers of global environmental change, with far reaching ecological and socio-economic impacts. The trend of continuous increases in first records, with no apparent sign of saturation, is consistent across all taxonomic groups. However, taxonomic biases exist in the extent to which invasion processes have been studied. Invasive forest pathogens have caused, and they continue to result in dramatic damage to natural forests and woody ecosystems, yet their impacts are substantially underrepresented in the invasion science literature. Conversely, most studies of forest pathogens have been undertaken in the absence of a connection to the frameworks developed and used to study biological invasions. We believe this is, in part, a consequence of the mechanistic approach of the discipline of forest pathology; one that has been inherited from the broader discipline of plant pathology. Rather than investigating the origins of, and the processes driving the arrival of invasive microorganisms, the focus of pathologists is generally to investigate specific interactions between hosts and pathogens, with an emphasis on controlling the resulting disease problems. In contrast, central to the field of invasion science, which finds its roots in ecology, is the development and testing of general concepts and frameworks. The lack of knowledge of microbial biodiversity and ecology, speciation and geographic origin present challenges in understanding invasive forest pathogens under existing frameworks, and there is a need to address this shortfall. Advances in molecular technologies such as gene and genome sequencing and metagenomics studies have increased the “visibility” of microorganisms. We consider whether these technologies are being adequately applied to address the gaps between forest pathology and invasion science. We also interrogate the extent to which the two fields stand to gain by becoming more closely linked.

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协调入侵科学和森林病理学领域

外来入侵物种被广泛认为是全球环境变化的重要驱动力，具有深远的生态和社会经济影响。在所有分类组中，首次记录的持续增加趋势没有明显的饱和迹象。但是，在研究入侵过程的程度上存在分类学偏见。入侵性森林病原体已经造成并继续对天然林和木质生态系统造成巨大破坏，但其影响在入侵科学文献中并未得到充分体现。相反，大多数森林病原体的研究是在与开发和用于研究生物入侵的框架没有联系的情况下进行的。我们认为部分原因是 森林病理学的机械方法的结果；一种从更广泛的植物病理学学科继承而来的方法。病理学家通常不研究侵入性微生物的起源和驱动侵入性微生物到达的过程，而是研究宿主与病原体之间的特定相互作用，重点是控制所导致的疾病问题。相反，入侵科学领域的根源在于生态学，它是对一般概念和框架的开发和测试。在现有框架下，缺乏对微生物生物多样性和生态，物种和地理起源的知识提出了理解入侵森林病原体的挑战，因此有必要解决这一不足。分子技术的发展，例如基因和基因组测序以及宏基因组学研究，提高了微生物的“可见性”。我们考虑这些技术是否被适当地应用来解决森林病理学和入侵科学之间的空白。我们还询问了通过变得更加紧密的联系，这两个领域将在多大程度上获得收益。