Defining invasiveness and invasibility in ecological networks

Biological Invasions

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 971-983

  Hui, Cang ^a,b   Richardson, David M ^a   Landi, Pietro ^a,c   Minoarivelo, Henintsoa O ^a   Garnas, Jeff ^d   Roy, Helen E ^e  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

^c INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^e CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Ecological networks; Fluctuating resource hypothesis; Interaction matrix; Interaction strength; Invasibility; Invasiveness; Network stability

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EIGENVALUE; ENCOUNTER RATE; GROWTH RATE; INSECT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVENESS; NESTEDNESS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NICHE; POPULATION GROWTH; PROPAGULE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84958740245     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1076-7     Document Type: Article

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