Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction

ML McKinney, JL Lockwood - Trends in ecology & evolution, 1999 - cell.com
Human activities are not random in their negative and positive impacts on biotas. Emerging
evidence shows that most species are declining as a result of human activities ('losers') and …

Biological invasions in the Antarctic: extent, impacts and implications

Y Frenot, SL Chown, J Whinam, PM Selkirk… - Biological …, 2005 - cambridge.org
Alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals occur on most of the sub-Antarctic islands and
some parts of the Antarctic continent. These have arrived over approximately the last two …

Selectivity in mammalian extinction risk and threat types: a new measure of phylogenetic signal strength in binary traits

SA Fritz, A Purvis - Conservation Biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The strength of phylogenetic signal in extinction risk can give insight into the mechanisms
behind species' declines. Nevertheless, no existing measure of phylogenetic pattern in a …

Propagule pressure: a null model for biological invasions

RI Colautti, IA Grigorovich, HJ MacIsaac - Biological invasions, 2006 - Springer
Invasion ecology has been criticised for its lack of general principles. To explore this
criticism, we conducted a meta-analysis that examined characteristics of invasiveness (ie the …

[BOOK][B] Ant ecology

L Lach, C Parr, K Abbott - 2010 - books.google.com
Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

[BOOK][B] Naturalised birds of the world

C Lever - 2010 - books.google.com
This book looks at the world's naturalised (successfully introduced) species of bird. Many
species have been introduced to countries outside their natural range by people, either …

A global review of the distribution, taxonomy, and impacts of introduced seaweeds

SL Williams, JE Smith - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst., 2007 - annualreviews.org
We reviewed over 407 global seaweed introduction events and have increased the total
number of introduced seaweed species to 277. Using binomial tests we show that several …

A boom–bust phylum? Ecological and evolutionary consequences of density variations in echinoderms

S Uthicke, B Schaffelke, M Byrne - Ecological monographs, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Echinoderms play a key role in structuring many marine ecosystems and are notorious for
large population density variations in so‐called “outbreak” or “dieoff” events. In a review of …

The global distribution of bamboos: assessing correlates of introduction and invasion

S Canavan, DM Richardson, V Visser, JJ Le Roux… - AoB Plants, 2017 - academic.oup.com
There is a long history of species being moved around the world by humans. These
introduced species can provide substantial benefits, but they can also have undesirable …

MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions

P Pyšek, S Bacher, I Kühn, A Novoa, JA Catford… - 2020 - researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz
Macroecology is the study of patterns, and the processes that determine those patterns, in
the distribution and abundance of organisms at large scales, whether they be spatial (from …