Species' invasions have long been regarded as enormously complex processes, so
complex as to defy predictivity. Phases of this process, however, are emerging as highly …

It is commonly believed that diverse communities better resist invasion by exotic species
than do simple communities. We examined the history of this notion, and evaluated …

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography,
linking individual-and population-level processes to geographic distributions and …

No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

We propose a multivariate approach to the study of geographic species distribution which
does not require absence data. Building on Hutchinson's concept of the ecological niche …

Invasion ecology, the study of how organisms spread in habitats to which they are not native,
asks both about the invasiveness of species and the invasibility of habitats: Which species …

Aim Many attempts to predict the potential range of species rely on environmental niche (or
'bioclimate envelope') modelling, yet the effects of using different niche‐based …

This book assembles detailed information on the components of the invasive-species
problem from the USA, British Isles, Australia, South Africa, India and Brazil. Data provided …

Aim Spatial autocorrelation (SAC) in data, ie the higher similarity of closer samples, is a
common phenomenon in ecology. SAC is starting to be considered in the analysis of …

Besides a general consensus regarding the negative impact of invasive alien species in the
literature, only recently has the decline of native species attributable to biological invasions …