Changing Perspectives on Managing Biological Invasions: Insights from South Africa and the Working for Water programme

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 377-393

  Van Wilgen, Brian W ^a   Khan, Ahmed ^b   Marais, Christo ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b Working for Water Programme   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Charles Elton's insights and concepts disparate fields of enquiry to sow the seeds for emergence of 'invasion ecology'; Dimensions of research currently being conducted on non native species and phenomenon of biological invasions; Drivers of invasion, towards effective linking of propagule pressure and other factors in models; Fields of research on issues relating to biological invasions; Groups 'systems' , 'target ' and 'transformational knowledge' and 'boundary management'; Identification, detection and maping taking the technology train; Invasion science the roads travelled and the roads ahead; Networks as a fundamental framework for invasion ecology; Study of biological invasions 50 years after Elton; Study of biological invasions into the future

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886023143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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