A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

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dc.contributor.authorBlackburn T.M.
dc.contributor.authorPysek P.
dc.contributor.authorBacher S.
dc.contributor.authorCarlton J.T.
dc.contributor.authorDuncan R.P.
dc.contributor.authorJarosik V.
dc.contributor.authorWilson J.R.U.
dc.contributor.authorRichardson D.M.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-13T16:58:13Z
dc.date.available2011-10-13T16:58:13Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThere has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years, but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists concerned with different taxa and different environments have largely adopted different model frameworks for the invasion process, resulting in a confusing range of concepts, terms and definitions. In this review, we propose a unified framework for biological invasions that reconciles and integrates the key features of the most commonly used invasion frameworks into a single conceptual model that can be applied to all human-mediated invasions. The unified framework combines previous stage-based and barrier models, and provides a terminology and categorisation for populations at different points in the invasion process. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd.
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dc.identifier.citationTrends in Ecology and Evolution
dc.identifier.citation26
dc.identifier.citation7
dc.identifier.citationhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79958761618&partnerID=40&md5=b8fcde4ea5f618ff21943a2cb65ac194
dc.identifier.issn1695347
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.tree.2011.03.023
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/16646
dc.subjectbiological invasion
dc.subjectecosystem modeling
dc.subjectfield survey
dc.subjecthuman activity
dc.subjectterminology
dc.titleA proposed unified framework for biological invasions
dc.typeReview
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