Conceptual Ecology and Invasion Biology: Reciprocal Approaches to Nature /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2006. |
| Colección: | Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.