Invasive species and natural function in ecology

Invasive Species in Europe: Ecology, Status and Policy

Globalization of trade and travel has facilitated the spread of non-native species across the earth. A proportion of these species become established and cause serious environmental, economic, and human health impacts. These species are referred to as invasive, and are now recognized as one of the major drivers of biodiversity change across the globe. As a long-time centre for trade, Europe has...

Synthesizing ecology and evolution for the study of invasive species

This special volume is a compilation of papers from a workshop on Synthesizing Ecology and Evolution for the Study of Invasive Species, held in March 2009 at Lake Tahoe, CA, USA. The goal of this workshop was to bring together a diverse group of scientists to discuss gaps in research pertaining to invasion biology and outline research objectives for the future, with an emphasis on synthesizing ...

The Ecology of Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus) as an Invasive Species

Composition operators and natural metrics in meromorphic function classes $Q_p$

‎In this paper‎, ‎we investigate some results on natural metrics on the $mu$-normal functions and meromorphic $Q_p$-classes‎. ‎Also‎, ‎these classes are shown to be complete metric spaces with respect to the corresponding metrics‎. ‎Moreover‎, ‎compact composition operators $C_phi$ and Lipschitz continuous operators acting from $mu$-normal functions to the meromorphic $Q_p$-classes are characte...

Melding ecology, classical weed biocontrol, and plant microbial ecology can inform improved practices in controlling invasive plant species

Early research leading to the successful biological control of invasive species such as Opuntia spp., and Hypericum perforatum set examples and provided data useful for research programs that would follow. However, this early work failed to become established as a source of applicable principles for later workers in weed biocontrol. Recently, retrospective and parallel studies have been suggest...