A proposed unified framework for biological invasions
Date
2011
Authors
Blackburn T.M.
Pysek P.
Bacher S.
Carlton J.T.
Duncan R.P.
Jarosik V.
Wilson J.R.U.
Richardson D.M.
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Abstract
There 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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biological invasion, ecosystem modeling, field survey, human activity, terminology
Citation
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
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