Abstract

The impacts of non-native species are hypothesised to be proportional to the functional distinctiveness of invaders in their invaded ecosystems. Throughout the Patagonia region of southern South America, Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) have recently established non-native populations, and their anadromous, semelparous life cycle could be functionally unique such that marine-derived nutrients are delivered to streams which have historically lacked such a resource linkage with the ocean.