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Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography


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Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography

Paperback by Sax, Dov F. (, Brown University); Stachowicz, John J. (, University of California, Davis); Gaines, Steven D. (, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography

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ISBN:
9780878938117
Publication Date:
15 Jun 2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Inc
Pages:
495 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 29 May - 6 Jun 2024
Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography

Description

Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University Press. Species invasions present significant conservation challenges, but they also provide invaluable information about the functioning of natural systems. In this edited book, experts from the fields of ecology, evolution, and biogeography explore the unique insights species invasions provide. Several key advances emerge in each discipline, and collectively they provide a template for new research that transforms invasion biology into a powerful tool for basic research in ecology, evolution, and biogeography.

Contents

Preface.- Introduction: Species Invasions as the 'Rosetta Stone' of Ecology; D.Sax, John J.Stachowicz & S.D.Gaines.- PART I: INSIGHTS INTO ECOLOGY.- Introduction; P.Cassey.- Insights into Biotic Interactions from Studies of Species Invasions; J.F.Bruno, J.D. Fridley, K.D.Bromberg & M.D.Bertness.- Species Invasions and the Relationship between Community Saturation, Diversity, and Ecosystem Functioning; J.J.Stachowicz & D.Tilman.- Invasive Species as a Tool for Studying Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes; C.M.D'Antonio & S.E.Hobbie.- Biological Invasions and the Loss of Birds on Islands: Insights into the Idiosyncrasies of Extinction; T.M.Blackburn & K.J.Gaston.- What Introduced Species Tell Us about the Role of Infectious Diseases in Natural Communities; K.D.Lafferty, K.F.Smith, M.E.Torchin, A.P.Dobson & A.M.Kuris.- PART II: INSIGHTS INTO EVOLUTION.- Introduction; M.Vellend, A.R.Hughes & R.K.Grosberg.- Using Invasive Species to Study Evolution; R.B.Huey, G.W.Gilchrist & A.P.Hendry.- Taxon Cycles: Insights from Invasive Species; R.E.Ricklefs.- Genetic Bottlenecks in Alien Plant Species: Influence of Mating Systems and Introduction Dynamics; S.J.Novak & R.N.Mack.- Species Introductions and Invasions: Insights into the Mechanisms that Drive Evolutionary Change; J.P.Wares, A.R.Hughes & R.K.Grosberg.- Exotic Species: Potential Tests of Theories of Niche Conservatism and Evolution? R.D.Holt, M.Barfield & R.Gomulkiewicz.- Species Invasions: Underappreciated Tools to Test Fundamental Evolutionary Questions at Large Spatial and Demographic Scales; W.R.Rice & D.F. Sax.- PART III: INSIGHTS INTO BIOGEOGRAPHY.- Introduction; J.L.Lockwood.- Invasion as Expectation: A Historical Fact of Life; G.Vermeij.- Evolutionary Trajectories in Plant and Soil Microbial Communities: Centaurea Invasions and the Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution; R.M.Callaway, J.L.Hierro & A.S.Thorpe.- Exotic and Native Species Have Similar Spatial Patterns of Community Composition, Evenness, and Abundance; M.L.McKinney & J.L.Lockwood.- What Exotic Species Tell Us about Rates of Population Spread and Geographic Range Expansion; B.P.Kinlan & A.Hastings.- Scaling Patterns in Exotic Species Distribution and Abundance; F.A.Labra, S.R.Abades & P.M.Marquet.- Species Invasions and Changes in Diversity at Subglobal Scales; J.H.Brown, E.P. White, D.F.Sax & S.D.Gaines.- Capstone: Studying Species Invasions: Where Do We Go from Here? D.F.Sax, J.J.Stachowic & S.D. Gaines.

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