Ecological Consequences of Pathogen and Insect Invasions

Biological invasions are a main component of global change with strong ecological and socio-economic consequences

Biological invasions are a main component of global change with strong ecological and socio-economic consequences (Simberloff et al. 2013, Schirmel et al. 2016). Such changes can affect resident animal communities by modifying habitats Schirmel et al. 2011), food resources (Wolkovich et al. 2009) or biotic interactions (Schweiger et al. 2010). Effects on local fauna can be negative in terms of ...

The Causes and Consequences of Ant Invasions

David A. Holway,1 Lori Lach,2 Andrew V. Suarez,3 Neil D. Tsutsui,4 and Ted J. Case1 1Section of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853; email: [email protected] 3Dep...

Ecological and evolutionary insights from species invasions.

Species invasions provide numerous unplanned and frequently, but imperfectly, replicated experiments that can be used to better understand the natural world. Classic studies by Darwin, Grinnell, Elton and others on these species-invasion experiments provided invaluable insights for ecology and evolutionary biology. Recent studies of invasions have resulted in additional insights, six of which w...

The evolutionary consequences of biological invasions.

A major challenge of invasion biology is the development of a predictive framework that prevents new invasions. This is inherently difficult because different biological characteristics are important at the different stages of invasion: opportunity/transport, establishment and spread. Here, we draw from recent research on a variety of taxa to examine the evolutionary causes and consequences of ...

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