Read more
Informationen zum Autor David M. Richardson is Professor in the Department of Botany & Zoology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is Deputy Director: Science Strategy at the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology. He is one of the most prolific authors in invasion ecology and was awarded the 2006 Hans Sigrist Prize for his work in this field. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and since 1998 has been Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Diversity and Distributions (Wiley-Blackwell). Klappentext Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. Interest in this field has exploded in the past few decades. Explaining why and how organisms are moved around the world, how and why some become established and invade, and how best to manage invasive species in the face of global change are all crucial issues that interest biogeographers, ecologists and environmental managers in all parts of the world. This book brings together the insights of more than 50 authors to examine the origins, foundations, current dimensions and potential trajectories of invasion ecology. It revisits key tenets of the foundations of invasion ecology, including contributions of pioneering naturalists of the 19th century, including Charles Darwin and British ecologist Charles Elton, whose 1958 monograph on invasive species is widely acknowledged as having focussed scientific attention on biological invasions. Zusammenfassung Invasion ecology is the study of the causes and consequences of the introduction of organisms to areas outside their native range. This book brings together the insights of more than fifty authors to examine the origins! foundations! current dimensions and potential trajectories of invasion ecology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors. Foreword. Introduction. PART 1 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES. 1 A world of thought: ' The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants' and Charles Elton's life's work ( ROGER L. KITCHING ). 2 Charles Elton: neither founder nor siren, but prophet ( DANIEL SIMBERLOFF ). 3 The inviolate sea? Charles Elton and biological invasions in the world's oceans ( JAMES T. CARLTON ). 4 The rise and fall of biotic nativeness: a historical perspective ( MATTHEW K. CHEW AND ANDREW L. HAMILTON ). PART 2 EVOLUTION AND CURRENT DIMENSIONS OF INVASION ECOLOGY. 5 Patterns and rate of growth of studies in invasion ecology ( HUGH J. MACISAAC, RAHEL A. TEDLA AND ANTHONY RICCIARDI ). 6 Invasion ecology and restoration ecology: parallel evolution in two fi elds of endeavour ( RICHARD J. HOBBS AND DAVID M. RICHARDSON ). PART 3 NEW TAKES ON INVASION PATTERNS. 7 Biological invasions in Europe 50 years after Elton: time to sound the ALARM ( PETR PYŠEK AND PHILIP E. HULME ). 8 Fifty years of tree pest and pathogen invasions, increasingly threatening world forests ( MICHAEL J. WINGFIELD, BERNARD SLIPPERS, JOLANDA ROUX AND BRENDA D. WINGFIELD ). PART 4 THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF INVASION ECOLOGY. 9 A movement ecology approach to study seed dispersal and plant invasion: an overview and application of seed dispersal by fruit bats ( ASAF TSOAR, DAVID SHOHAMI AND RAN NATHAN ). 10 Biodiversity as a bulwark against invasion: conceptual threads since Elton ( JASON D. FRIDLEY ). 11 Soil biota and plant invasions: biogeographical effects on plant-microbe interactions ( RAGAN M. CALLAWAY AND MARNIE E. ROUT ). 12 Mutualisms: key drivers of invasions ... key casualties of invasions ( ANNA TRAVESET AND DAVID M. RICHARDSON ). 13 Fifty years on: confronting Elton's hypotheses about invasion success with data from...
