Biological invasions: are they dependent on disturbance?

JD Lozon, HJ MacIsaac - Environmental Reviews, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les auteurs ont effectué une analyse de la littérature pour examiner l'établissement
d'espèces exotiques en relation avec les perturbations naturelles ou anthropiques des …

The ecology of bird introductions

RP Duncan, TM Blackburn, D Sol - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract A growing number of species have been transported and introduced by humans to
new locations and have established self-sustaining wild populations beyond their natural …

[LIVRE][B] Pattern and process in macroecology

KJ Gaston, TM Blackburn - 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The first photographs of the Earth to be taken from outer space are said to have had a
profound influence on how humanity perceives its place in the Universe. They provided a …

Accelerating invasion rate in a highly invaded estuary

AN Cohen, JT Carlton - Science, 1998 - science.org
Biological invasions are a major global environmental and economic problem. Analysis of
the San Francisco Bay and Delta ecosystem revealed a large number of exotic species that …

Behavioural flexibility and invasion success in birds

D Sol, S Timmermans, L Lefebvre - Animal behaviour, 2002 - Elsevier
Behavioural flexibility has long been thought to provide advantages for animals when they
invade novel environments. This hypothesis has recently received empirical support in a …

Are there any consistent predictors of invasion success?

KR Hayes, SC Barry - Biological invasions, 2008 - Springer
This article summarises the results of 49 studies that together test the significance of 115
characteristics in 7 biological groups: birds, finfish, insects, mammals, plants …

[LIVRE][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 …

Species invasions exceed extinctions on islands worldwide: a comparative study of plants and birds

DF Sax, SD Gaines, JH Brown - The American Naturalist, 2002 - journals.uchicago.edu
Species richness is decreasing at a global scale. At subglobal scales, that is, within any
defined area less extensive than the globe, species richness will increase when the number …

[LIVRE][B] Avian invasions: the ecology and evolution of exotic birds

TM Blackburn, JL Lockwood, P Cassey - 2009 - books.google.com
Biological invaders represent one of the primary threats to the maintenance of global
biodiversity, human health, and the success of human economic enterprises. The continuing …

Establishment patterns of exotic birds are constrained by non‐random patterns in introduction

TM Blackburn, RP Duncan - Journal of Biogeography, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Species transported to and introduced into non‐native environments, termed
'introductions', constitute a growing component of many regional floras and faunas, yet not …