Daniel Simberloff

Invasive Species (eBook, PDF)

What Everyone Needs to Know?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Of the 7,000 estimated non-native species present in North America, approximately 1,000 are invasive. Clearly, invasive species are in the minority, but their small numbers don't keep them from causing billions of dollars in economic and ecological harm each year. Policymakers and ecologists continue to try to figure out which species might be harmful, which invasive species are doing the most damage, and which of these might respond best to eradication efforts. Invasive species reports and case studies are prevalent in political, environmental, and scientific news cycles, and a significant portion of the public is concerned about the issue. In Invasive Species: What Everyone Needs to Know?, Simberloff will first cover basic topics such as how non-native species are introduced, which areas have incurred the most biological invasions, and how the rates of biological invasions have shifted in recent years. He then moves on to the direct and indirect impacts of the impacts of invasive species on various ecosystems, such as habitat and resource competition, how invasive species transmit pathogens, and how introduced plants and animals can modify a habitat to favor other non-native species. Simberloff's final chapters will discuss the evolution of invasive species, the policies we currently have in place to manage them, and future prospects for controlling their spread. The book will also contain a section dedicated to the more controversial topics surrounding invasive species: invasive natives, useful non-native species, animal rights versus species rights, and non-native species' impacts on the biodiversity of an ecosystem. What Everyone Needs to Know? is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press. is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199922024
• Artikelnr.: 39199256

Autorenporträt

Daniel Simberloff is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Institute for Biological Invasions at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Invasions and senior editor of the Encyclopedia of Biological Invasions (University of California Press, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

* I. Introduction
* II. Geography and time course of invasions
* 1. Which areas have incurred the most biological invasions,
* and where have most invasions originated?
* 2. When have invasions occurred and by what means? How have rates of
invasions changed?
* 3. The particular vulnerability of island ecosystems.
* 4. Distribution of introduced species among habitats.
* 5. Introduced species and global climate change
* III. Impacts of introduced species
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* 1. Many have little or no impact
* 2. Direct effects
* 3. Indirect effects
* 4. "Invasional meltdown"
* 5. Time lags
* 6. Economic impacts
* IV. Evolution of introduced species and of natives in response to
them
* 1. Morphological evolution
* 2. Behavioral evolution
* 3. Life cycle evolution
* 4. Physiological evolution
* 5. New species/modified native species generated by hybridization
* V. Management of introduced species
* 1. International agreements and national regulatory frameworks
* 2. Border security
* 3. Eradication
* 4. Maintenance management
* VI. Controversial matters regarding invasions
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* 1. Useful introduced species
* 2. Introduced species and biodiversity
* 3. Invasive natives
* 4. How do we know a species is introduced?
* 5. Xenophobia
* 6. Animal rights vs. species rights
* 7. Restoration vs. novel ecosystems
* VII. Prospect - the Homogocene?
* VIII. Suggested reading and websites