Overview
- Highlights how theory can be used to understand species invasions
- Examines invasions across many spatial and temporal scales
- Utilizes many of the most up-to-date experimental, analytical and computational methods
Part of the book series: Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology (INNA, volume 1)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction, history and terminology
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Populations at play
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Unwlcomed visitors: species interactions
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About this book
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 organization: population, community and biogeographic, while employing example invaders in all major groups of organisms and from a number of regions around the globe. The chapters in this volume utilize many of the cutting edge observational, experimental, analytical and computational methods used in modern ecology. Through merging conceptual ecology and invasion biology we can obtain a better understanding of the invasion process while also developing a better understanding of how ecological systems function.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature
Editors: Marc William Cadotte, Sean M. Mcmahon, Tadashi Fukami
Series Title: Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4925-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4157-0Published: 09 May 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4158-7Published: 09 May 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4925-5Published: 19 July 2006
Series ISSN: 1874-7809
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 487
Topics: Ecology, Applied Ecology, Terrestial Ecology, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Nature Conservation