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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164928903321

Autore

Hui Cang

Titolo

Invasion dynamics / / Chang Hui and David M. Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017

ISBN

0-19-106253-7

0-19-180704-4

0-19-106252-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

577.18

Soggetti

Biological invasions

Introduced organisms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the scene -- Part I. Spread. The dynamics of spread -- Modelling spatial dynamics -- From dispersal to boosted range expansion -- Non-equilibrium dynamics -- Part II. Impact. Biotic interactions -- Regime shifts -- Community assembly and succession -- Monitoring and management -- Part III. Synthesis. Complex adaptive networks -- Managing biological invasions in the Anthropocene.

Sommario/riassunto

Humans have moved organisms around the world for centuries but it is only relatively recently that invasion ecology has grown into a mainstream research field. This text examines both the spread and impact dynamics of invasive species, placing the science of invasion biology on a new, more rigorous, theoretical footing, and proposing a concept of adaptive networks as the foundation for future research. Biological invasions are considered not as simple actions of invaders and reactions of invaded ecosystems, but as co-evolving complex adaptive systems with emergent features of network complexity and invasibility. 'Invasion Dynamics' focuses on the ecology of invasive species and their impacts in recipient social-ecological systems.