Researching Invasive Species 50 years After Elton: A Cautionary Tale

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 267-276

  Davis, Mark A ^a  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction threats in Canada introduced species to be the least important of the six categories analysed; Impacts of biotic interactions on community assembly, being very weak; Impacts of non native plants on biodiversity much less than those of non native pathogens, herbivores and predators; Invasion biology, niche based approach obvious in diversity invisibility hypothesis; New directions and technologies, new challenges; Niche based approach, field's initial efforts to understand invasion establishment and what makes environments more invasible than others; Problem of overstating claims and conclusions; Process by which preliminary conclusions become inflated generalizations, series of small missteps; Researching invasive species 50 years after Elton, a cautionary tale; Wilcove et al., addressing threats to species in the USA

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EID: 84886046671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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