Impact of Biological Invasions on Ecosystem Services
Editors: Vilà, Montserrat, Hulme, Philip (Eds.)
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- Describe a wide range of impacts by non-native microorganisms on a wide range of species including humans
- Integrates research dispersed across disciplines that is essential for best management of biological invasions
- Provides a comprehensive information system of the worst invaders to different productive and socio-economic sectors
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- About this book
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The book presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species. It provides a comprehensive description of impacts of non-native species from all five kingdoms of life across all ecosystems of the world. New insights into the impacts arising from biological invasions are generated through taking an ecosystem services perspective. This work highlights that management of biological invasions is needed not only to sustain biodiversity and the environment, but also to safeguard productive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fisheries, as well as to preserve human health and well-being.
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“This is a book worth reading, but also to come back to for reference on several occasions. It could well become one of those core references for the introductory sentences of many papers and proposals on biological invasions stating the impacts of IAS before setting out the more specific research questions.” (Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Basic and Applied Ecology, May, 2018)
“All biological invasions on ecosystem services, interdisciplinary collaboration is important for understanding and managing biological invasions to preserve the environmental, economic and societal values of interest (ecosystem services). This book is an important first step towards that goal because it comprehensively advances our understanding of the impact of biological invasions not just on biodiversity and ecosystems, but on the human species as well.” (E. M. Bennett, Biological Invasions, Vol. 20, 2018)
- Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Non-native Species, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being
Pages 1-14
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Changes in Primary Production and Carbon Sequestration after Plant Invasions
Pages 17-31
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Modification of Habitat Quality by Non-native Species
Pages 33-47
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Alteration of Nitrogen Cycling as a Result of Invasion
Pages 49-62
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Hydrological Impacts of Biological Invasions
Pages 63-80
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Impact of Biological Invasions on Ecosystem Services
- Editors
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- Montserrat Vilà
- Philip Hulme
- Series Title
- Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology
- Series Volume
- 12
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-45121-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-45121-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-45119-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-83215-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIV, 354
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
- Topics
