Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
PART I. THE INVASION PROCESS
2: Dispersal
3: Establishment
4: Persistence and Spread
5: Evolution
6: Understanding and Predicting Invasions: An Integrated Approach
PART II. IMPACTS AND MANAGEMENT
7: Impacts of Invasions
8: Management of Invasive Species
PART III. REFLECTIONS
9: Framing Biological Invasions
10: Researching Biological Invasions
11: Disciplinary Challenges
12: Conclusion
Geographic index
Subject index
Taxonomic index

About the Author

Mark Davis is the DeWitt Wallace Professor and Chair of Biology at Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN,USA, where he has taught since 1981. His teaching and research interests include both plant and animal ecology. For the past twenty years, he has conducted his research at the Cedar Creek LTER site in east-central Minnesota, where his invasion research has focused on the invasibility of grasslands. In particular, he has studied how no-native grasses may influence
the ability of woody plants to spread into grassland environments. He is also interested in the history, philosophy, and language of invasion biology, and of science in general.

Reviews

`Mark A. Daviss new book provides a rich, multidisciplinary examination of the contemporary field of invasion biology. There is remarkable breadth of topical material in Invasion Biology.'
Ecological Society of America
`A thoughtful book.'
Bulletin of the British Ecological Society
`The book is a landmark in the rapidly developing scientific discipline of invasion biology.'
Ecological Society of Germany