A Compendium of Essential Concepts and Terminology in Invasion Ecology

Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 409-420

  Richardson, David M ^a   Pyšek, Petr ^b,c   Carlton, James T ^d  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d Williams Mystic   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions (synonyms bioinvasions, biotic invasions, species invasions); Biosecurity, management of risks posed by organisms to economy, environment and human health through exclusion; Compendium of essential concepts and terminology in invasion ecology; Darwin's naturalization hypothesis; Geographical and historical differences in usage of terminology; Invasion paradox two broad contexts in recent literature; Lag phase (synonym: latency period) time between when an alien species arriving in a new area and onset of phase of exponential increase; Naturalization invasion continuum; Quine (1936), 'the less a science has advanced the more its terminology tends to rest upon an uncritical assumption of mutual understanding'; Transformers invasive species that change the character

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886060771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444329988.ch30     Document Type: Chapter

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