A proposed unified framework for biological invasions
There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years, but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists concerned with different taxa and different environments have largely adopted different model frameworks for the invasion...
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Published in: | Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 333 - 339 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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Kidlington
Elsevier Ltd
01-07-2011
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Summary: | There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years, but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists concerned with different taxa and different environments have largely adopted different model frameworks for the invasion process, resulting in a confusing range of concepts, terms and definitions. In this review, we propose a unified framework for biological invasions that reconciles and integrates the key features of the most commonly used invasion frameworks into a single conceptual model that can be applied to all human-mediated invasions. The unified framework combines previous stage-based and barrier models, and provides a terminology and categorisation for populations at different points in the invasion process. |
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ISSN: | 0169-5347 1872-8383 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.023 |