In the face of anthropogenic climate change, species must acclimate, adapt, move, or die.
Although some species are moving already, their ability to keep up with the faster changes …

Biological invasions constitute a major environmental change driver, affecting conservation,
agriculture and human health. Invasive alien species (IAS) impacts include, alterations of …

The intermediate disturbance hypothesis (IDH) predicts a hump-shaped pattern between
community diversity and disturbance, and is central to understanding patterns of species …

This chapter covers plant invasions and invasibility of plant communities, with sections on
definitions and major patterns, habitat compatibility, propagule pressure and residence time …

Invasive plants can disrupt a range of trophic interactions in native communities. As a novel
resource they can affect the performance of native insect herbivores and their natural …

Invasion science is a very active subdiscipline of ecology. However, some scientists contend
that theoretical integration has been limited and that predictive power remains weak. This …

The diversity of pathogens on highly abundant introduced hosts has been positively
correlated with time since introduction, geographical range of the introduced species and …

Several prominent hypotheses have been posed to explain the immense variability among
plant species in defense against herbivores. A major concept in the evolutionary ecology of …

While most alien species fail to establish, some invade native communities and become
widespread. Our understanding of invasion success is derived mainly from pairwise …

In ecology, a hypothesis is usually not discarded if a few studies reject it, as long as there
are other studies supporting it. How to assess the usefulness of ecological hypotheses is …