Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature
Editors: Cadotte, Marc W., McMahon, Sean M., Fukami, Tadashi (Eds.)
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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 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.
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Tracking the tractable: using invasion to guide the exploration of conceptual ecology
Pages 3-14
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Darwin to Elton: early ecology and the problem of invasive species
Pages 15-33
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Invasion biology 1958-2005: the pursuit of science and conservation
Pages 35-64
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Invasiveness in exotic plants: immigration and naturalization in an ecological continuum
Pages 65-105
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Density dependence in invasive plants: demography, herbivory, spread and evolution
Pages 109-123
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature
- Editors
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- Marc W. Cadotte
- Sean M. McMahon
- Tadashi Fukami
- Series Title
- Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology
- Series Volume
- 1
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4925-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/1-4020-4925-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4157-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-4158-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 487
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