Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology Reciprocal Approaches to Nature

Name: Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology Reciprocal Approaches to Nature
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ISBN: 9781402041587

ISBN-10: 1402041586

ISBN-13: 9781402041587

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marc W. Cadotte, Sean M. McMahon, Tadashi Fukami

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The conservation threat represented by invasive species is well-known, but the scientific opportunities are underappreciated. Invasion studies have historically been largely directed at the important job of collecting case studies. Invasion biology has matured to the point of being able to incorporating itself into the heart of ecology, and should be viewed as extensions or critical experiments of ecological theory. In this edited volume, global experts in ecology and evolutionary biology explore how theories in ecology elucidate the invasion processes while also examining how specific invasions informs ecological theory. This reciprocal benefit is highlighted in a number of scales of…

Book details

List price: $249.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 487
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 3.564
Language: English



Contributors


Foreword


Preface


Introduction, history and terminology



Tracking the tractable: using invasions to guide the exploration of conceptual ecology




Darwin to Elton: early ecology and the problem of invasive species




Invasion biology 1958-2005: the pursuit of science and conservation




Invasiveness in exotic plants: immigration and naturalization in an ecological continuum



Populations at play



Density dependence in invasive plants: demography, herbivory, spread and evolution




Stochasticity, nonlinearity and instability in biological invasions




Local interactions and invasion dynamics: population growth in space and time




A guide to calculating discrete-time invasion rates from data




The role of evolutionary genetics in studies of plant invasions



Unwelcomed visitor: species interactions



Contact experience, alien-native interactions, and their community consequences: a theoretical consideration on the role of adaptation in biological invasion




Use of biological invasions and their control to study the dynamics of interacting populations




Invasibility of seed predators on synchronized and intermittent seed production of host plants




Invasions and the regulation of plant populations by pathogens




Exploring the relationship between niche breadth and invasion success




Interactions between invasive plants and soil ecosystems: positive feedbacks and their potential to persist




Invasion biology as a community process: messages from microbial microcosms



Large-scale consequences and patterns of invasions



Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory




Competition and the assembly of introduced bird communities




Room for one more? Evidence for invasibility and saturation in ecological communities




The biogeography of naturalized species and the species-area relationship: reciprocal insights to biogeography and invasion biology



Synthesis



Linking scale dependent processes in invasions



Index