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| Preface | |
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| An Introduction to Invasion Ecology | |
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| What are invaders and why do we care about them? | |
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| A brief history of invasion ecology | |
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| The wicked terminological web we weave | |
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| The invasion process | |
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| Summary | |
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| Transport Vectors and Pathways | |
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| What's the difference between a vector and a pathway? | |
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| Does human-mediated dispersal differ from natural dispersal? | |
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| Transport vectors | |
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| Which species are transported via what vector group? | |
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| Dynamics of transport pathways | |
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| Summary | |
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| Trends in Numbers of Invaders | |
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| Invasion rates through time | |
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| Geographic patterns in numbers of invaders | |
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| Summary | |
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| Propagules | |
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| What are propagules? | |
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| Donor region and propagule pressure | |
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| Biological mechanisms | |
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| Empirical evidence | |
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| The hidden influence of propagule pressure | |
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| Summary | |
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| Disturbance | |
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| History and definition of disturbance | |
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| Disturbance facilitates invasion? | |
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| Restoration and disturbance | |
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| Agriculture and urbanization as disturbance | |
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| Biotic disturbance | |
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| Summary | |
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| Establishment Success: The Influence of Biotic Interactions | |
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| Conceptual issues | |
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| Resistance to invasion | |
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| Facilitation of establishment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Modeling the Geographical Spread of Invasive Species | |
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| What exactly is geographical spread? | |
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| Why do we want to model geographical spread? | |
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| The reaction-diffusion model | |
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| Long-distance dispersal | |
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| Directional dispersal | |
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| Stratified dispersal | |
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| Other forms of heterogeneity | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ecological Processes and the Spread of Non-native Species | |
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| Population growth | |
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| Dispersal | |
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| Biotic interactions | |
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| The role of heterogeneity | |
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| Lag times | |
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| Boom and bust | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ecological Impacts of Invasive Species | |
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| Genetic impacts | |
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| Individual impacts | |
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| Population impacts | |
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| Community impacts | |
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| Ecosystem impacts | |
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| Landscape, regional, and global impacts | |
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| Summary | |
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| Impact Synthesis | |
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| Perception and recognition of impact | |
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| Integrating perception with ecological determinants of impact | |
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| A theory of impact? | |
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| Finding common currencies | |
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| A cross-stage impact formula | |
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| Summary | |
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| Evolution of Invaders | |
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| Founding process | |
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| Losses and gains in genetic variability via transport mechanisms | |
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| Genetics and post-release success | |
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| Local adaptation and life-history evolution | |
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| Evolution of native species in response to non-natives | |
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| Summary | |
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| Predicting and Preventing Invasion | |
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| Explanation versus risk assessment | |
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| Inherent limitations to prediction | |
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| Risk analysis | |
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| Screening risky species | |
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| Screening risky transportation vectors | |
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| Summary | |
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| Eradication and Control of Invaders | |
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| Cause for optimism? | |
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| Rapid response | |
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| Lazarus effect | |
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| Long-term control | |
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| Sisyphus effect | |
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| Summary | |
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| Global Climate Change and Invasive Species | |
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| Global climate change 101 | |
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| Non-native species and global climate change | |
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| Transport | |
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| Establishment | |
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| Spread | |
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| Impact | |
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| Human responses | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| A colour plate section falls between pages 372 and 373 | |