Networks of Invasion: A Synthesis of Concepts

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-12-804338-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC PR INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Advances in Ecological Researc

Networks of Invasion bridges a conceptual gap between ecological network studies and invasion biology studies. This book contains chapters detailing pressing concerns regarding invasive species in food webs, but also extends the idea of networks of invasion to other systems, such as mutualistic networks or even the human microbiome.

Chapters describe the tools, models, and empirical methods adapted for tackling invasions in ecological networks.

Zielgruppe

Environmentalists, ecologists at undergraduate through to research level, social scientists and economists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bohan, David

Dumbrell, Alex

Massol, Francois

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Impacts of Invasive Species on Food Webs: A Review of Empirical Data P. David, E. Thebault, O. Anneville, P.-F. Duyck, E. Chapuis and N. Loeuille 2. The Effects of Invasive Species on the Decline in Species Richness: A Global Meta-Analysis G. Mollot, J.H. Pantel and T. Romanuk 3. Invasions Toolkit: Current Methods for Tracking the Spread and Impact of Invasive Species S. Kamenova, T. Bartley, D. A. Bohan, J.R. Boutain, R.I. Colautti, I. Domaizon, C. Fontaine, A. Lemainque, I. LeViol, G. Mollot, M.-E. Perga, V. Ravigné and F. Massol 4. Island Biogeography of Food Webs F. Massol, M. Dubart, V. Calcagno, K. Cazelles, C. Jacquet, S. Kéfi and D. Gravel 5. Robustness Trade-Offs in Model Food Webs: Invasion Probability Decreases While Invasion Consequences Increase with Connectance T.N. Romanuk, Y. Zhou, F.S. Valdovinos and N.D. Martinez 6. 14 Questions for Invasion in Ecological Networks J.H. Pantel, D. Bohan, V. Calcagno, P. David, P.F. Duyck, S. Kamenova, N. Loeuille, G. Mollot, T. Romanuk, E. Thébault, P. Tixier and F. Massol

Über Autor(innen)

Dumbrell, Alex
Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.

Bohan, David
Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial 'waves' in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.
Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.