Invasive Species Compendium
Detailed coverage of invasive species threatening livelihoods and the environment worldwide
Detailed coverage of invasive species threatening livelihoods and the environment worldwide
This book, containing 18 chapters, combines the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach with hypothesis networks for invasion biology. This book aims to further develop the HoH approach by inviting critical comments (Part I), apply it to 12 major invasion hypotheses (Part II) and explore how it can...
Reviewing empirical evidence for major hypotheses in ecology is connected to two methodological challenges. First, all available empirical tests for a given hypothesis should be identified, collected and organized. This can be difficult due to divergent formulations of the hypothesis in the...
In Chapters 3, 4 and 5, three groups of authors have commented on the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach as introduced in Chapter 2. Here, we make suggestions on how to account for the issues raised in Chapters 3-5, whilst also considering several comments by other colleagues that we received...
The disturbance hypothesis posits that the invasion success of non-native species is higher in highly disturbed than in relatively undisturbed ecosystems. A synonymous formulation is that highly disturbed ecosystems show lower resistance against nonnative species than relatively undisturbed...
The tens rule became a popular invasion hypothesis in the 1990s and is still widely used today, even though empirical support has been mixed from the beginning and the number of studies questioning it has been increasing in the past decade. Also, the rule is not based on a model or other defensible ...
The phenotypic plasticity hypothesis - or, in short, plasticity hypothesis - posits that invasive species are more phenotypically plastic than non-invasive or native ones. On the basis of a systematic review, we identified 115 relevant empirical tests of the plasticity hypothesis. Most of these...
Darwin's naturalization hypothesis (DN) and the limiting similarity hypothesis (LS) are topically similar: DN posits that the invasion success of non-native species is higher in areas that are poor in closely related species than in areas that are rich in closely related species; LS says that the...
Propagule pressure is a composite measure of introduction effort consisting of: (i) the number of individuals introduced per introduction event (propagule size); and (ii) the frequency of introduction events (propagule frequency or number). The propagule pressure hypothesis posits that a high...
In Chapters 8-16, the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) toolbox has been applied in various ways. The results displayed as HoHs and additional bar graphs in most chapters, and as networks in Chapter 17, can now be used to identify knowledge gaps and promising paths for future research. We suggest some...
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