Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature - Cadotte, Marc W.; McMahon, Sean M.; Fukami, Tadashi; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Introduction, history and terminology -- Tracking the tractable: using invasion to guide the exploration of conceptual ecology -- Darwin to Elton: early ecology and the problem of invasive species -- Invasion biology 1958-2005: the pursuit of science and conservation -- Invasiveness in exotic plants: immigration and naturalization in an ecological continuum -- Populations at play -- Density dependence in invasive plants: demography, herbivory, spread and evolution -- Stochasticty, nonlinearity and instability in biological invasions -- Local interactions and invasion dynamics: population growth in space and time -- A guide to calculating discrete-time invasion rates from data -- The role of evolutionary genetiocs in studies of plant invasions -- Unwlcomed visitors: species interactions -- Contact experience, alien-native interactions, and their community consequences: a theoretical consideration on the role of adaptation in biological invasion -- Use of biological invasions and their control to study the dynamics of interacting populations -- Invasibility of seed prdators on synchronized intermittent seed production of host plants -- Invasion and the regulation of plant populations by pathogens -- Exploring the relationship between nichie breadth and invasion success -- Interactions between invasive plants and soil ecosystem: positive feedbacks and their potential to persist -- Invasion biology as a community process: messages from microbial microcosms -- Large-scale consequences and pattern of invasions -- Understanding invasions in patchy habitats through metapopulation theory -- Competition and the assembly of introduced bird communities -- Room for one more? Evidence for invasibility and saturation in ecological communities -- Ther biogeography of naturalized species and the species-area relationship: reciprocal insights to biogeography ans invasion biology -- Synthesis -- Linking scale dependent processes in invasions.
Keywords: Ecology .; Applied ecology; Nature conservation; Ecology; Applied Ecology; Terrestial Ecology; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Nature Conservation