Keywords:
Biological invasions.
;
Ecology.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (505 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781402049255
Series Statement:
Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology Series ; v.1
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=303480
DDC:
577.18
Language:
English
Note:
Preliminary -- Tracking the tractable: using invasion 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 -- Density dependence in invasive plants: demography, herbivory, spread and evolution -- Stochasticty, 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 genetiocs in studies of plant invasions -- 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 prdators on synchronized intermittent seed production of host plants -- Invasion and the regulation of plant populations by pathogens -- Exploring the relationship between nichie breadth and invasion success -- Interactions between invasive plants and soil ecosystem: positive feedbacks and their potential to persist -- Invasion biology as a community process: messages from microbial microcosms -- 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 -- Ther biogeography of naturalized species and the species-area relationship: reciprocal insights to biogeography ans invasion biology -- Linking scale dependent processes in invasions -- Back matter.
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