Quantifying invasion risk: The relationship between establishment probability and founding population size

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1255-1263

  Duncan, Richard P ^a   Blackburn, Tim M ^b,c,d   Rossinelli, Silvia ^e   Bacher, Sven ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Colonization success; Extinction; Non indigenous species; Population dynamics; Propagule pressure; Small populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913594875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12288     Document Type: Article

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