Part I. Insights into Ecology
Insights into Biotic Interactions from Studies of Species
Invasions, John F. Bruno, Jason D. Fridley, Keryn D. Bromberg, and
Mark D. Bertness
*Species Invasions and the Relationships between Species Diversity,
Community Saturation, and Ecosystem Functioning, John J. Stachowicz
and David Tilman
*Plant Species Effects on Ecosystem Processes: Insights from
Invasive Species, Carla M. D'Antonio and Sarah E. Hobbie
*Biological Invasions and the Loss of Birds on Islands: Insights
into the Idiosyncrasies of Extinction, Tim M. Blackburn and Kevin
J. Gaston
*The Role of Infectious Diseases in Natural Communities: What
Introduced Species Tell Us, Kevin D. Lafferty, Katherine. F. Smith,
Mark E. Torchin, Andy P. Dobson, and Armand M. Kuris
Part II. Insights into Evolution
Using Invasive Species to Study Evolution: Case Studies with
Drosophila and Salmon, Raymond B. Huey, George W. Gilchrist, and
Andrew P. Hendry
*Taxon Cycles: Insights from Invasive Species, Robert E.
Ricklefs
*Genetic Bottlenecks in Alien Plant Species: Influence of Mating
Systems and Introduction Dynamics, Stephen J. Novak and Richard N.
Mack
*Mechanisms That Drive Evolutionary Change: Insights from Species
Introductions and Invasions, John P. Wares, A. Randall Hughes, and
Richard K. Grosberg
*Theories of Niche Conservatism and Evolution: Could Exotic Species
Be Potential Tests? Robert D. Holt, Michael Barfield, and Richard
Gomulkiewicz
*Testing Fundamental Evolutionary Questions at Large Spatial and
Demographic Scales: Species Invasions as an Underappreciated Tool,
William R. Rice and Dov F. Sax
Part III. Insights into Biogeography
Invasion as Expectation: A Historical Fact of Life, Geerat J.
Vermeij
*Evolutionary Trajectories in Plant and Soil Microbial Communities:
Centaurea Invasions and the Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution, Ragan
M. Callaway, José L. Hierro, and Andrea S. Thorpe
*Community Composition and Homogenization: Evenness and Abundance
of Native and Exotic Plant Species, Michael L. McKinney and Julie
L. Lockwood
*Rates of Population Spread and Geographic Range Expansion: What
Exotic Species Tell Us, Brian P. Kinlan and Alan Hastings
*Distribution and Abundance: Scaling Patterns in Exotic and Native
Bird Species, Fabio A. Labra, Sebastián R. Abades, and Pablo M.
Marquet
*The Dynamics of Species Invasions: Insights into the Mechanisms
That Limit Species Diversity, Dov F. Sax, James H. Brown, Ethan P.
White, and Steven D. Gaines
*Capstone: Where Do We Go from Here? Dov F. Sax, John J.
Stachowicz, and Steven D. Gaines
DOV F. SAX is Assistant Research Scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. JOHN J. STACHOWICZ is Assistant Professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis, USA. STEVEN D. GAINES is the director of the Marine Science Institute and Acting Vice Chancellor for research at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Dov F. Sax is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and the Center for Environmental Studies at
Brown University.
John J. Stachowicz is Professor of Evolution and Ecology and
Director of the Center for Population Biology at the University of
California, Davis.
Steven D. Gaines is Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Marine
Biology and Director of the Marine Science Institute at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
"Well-written, well-organized, informative, and thought-provoking,
this book should be a welcome addition to the shelves of
ecologists, evolutionary biologists, biogeographers, and applied
invasion scientists alike."
--A. N. van Buren and P. Dee Boersma, Integrative and Comparative
Biology
"Species Invasions offers a fine compendium of ideas and examples
that will be valuable to students for the number of doors it opens
to scores of subdisciplines within ecology. For professionals, it
represents a state-of-the-art overview of the issues involved in
invasion biology."
--Michael J. Crawley, Science
"Species Invasions is sure to stimulate thought and productive
research across a wide range of fields."
--Laura Foster Huenneke, Ecology
"This is a good book, and one worth buying. There is much to mine
here, and even seasoned invasion biologists will find new
juxtapositions to ponder. For those invasions for which we do have
data, Species Invasions provides a wealth of good thinking."
--James T. Carlton, BioScience
"This volume would make an excellent starting point for a graduate
class in biological invasions. The chapters are well distributed
among topics and would provide minds on the edge of diving into
research with a fertile foundation."
--Sarah Reichard, The Quarterly Review of Biology
"This book is not light reading; the subject material is complex
and challenging. My initial impression was that the book would
appeal to a narrow audience. However, I discovered broad
implications for a variety of research areas; one need not be an
'invasion biologist' to draw insights and inferences from this
work. I therefore recommend the text as interesting reading
material for those involved in research areas such as climate
change, ecology, physiology,
genetics and biodiversity."
--Colin Templeton, The Forestry Chronicle
"Well-written, informative, and idea-generating. I recommend this
book to anyone seeking new perspectives on invasion theory,
including researchers with both applied and basic questions about
native and exotic colonizers and invaders."
--Cynthia D. Huebner, Landscape Ecology
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