Fifty Years on: Confronting Elton's Hypotheses about Invasion Success with Data from Exotic Birds

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 161-173

  Blackburn, Tim M ^a   Lockwood, Julie L ^b   Cassey, Phillip ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

'introduced animals replacing or reducing the numbers of native ones'; Bird invasions revisiting Elton's hypotheses; Bulk of Elton's book how human activities facilitated spread of invasive organisms; Charles Elton, recognizing importance of studying invasive species; Elton's (1958) focus, influence of exotic location on invasion process; Elton's (1958) prediction about invisibility of anthropogenically modified habitats; Existence of nest predation by common myna; Fifty years, confronting Elton's hypotheses about invasion success with data from exotic birds; MacArthur's (1955) work on relationship between diversity and stability; Simple communities, invaded than complex ones tropics should be hard to invade

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886057451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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