TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoffmann, Benjamin D.
A1  - Courchamp, Franck
T1  - Biological invasions and natural colonisations: are they that different?
T2  - NeoBiota
N2  - We argue that human-mediated invasions are part of the spectrum of species movements, not a unique phenomenon, because species self-dispersing into novel environments are subject to the same barriers of survival, reproduction, dispersal and further range expansion as those assisted by people. Species changing their distributions by human-mediated and non-human mediated modes should be of identical scientific interest to invasion ecology and ecology. Distinctions between human-mediated invasions and natural colonisations are very valid for management and policy, but we argue that these are value-laden distinctions and not necessarily an appropriate division for science, which instead should focus on distinctions based on processes and mechanisms. We propose an all-encompassing framework of species range expansion. This does not detract from the importance of invasion biology as a discipline, but instead will help bring together research being conducted on multiple taxa, and by multiple disciplines, including epidemiology, that are often focused on an identical phenomenon: colonisation.
KW  - Alien
KW  - biological invasion
KW  - colonisation
KW  - dispersal
KW  - exotic
KW  - invasion
KW  - introduction
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45512
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-455129
VL  - 2016
IS  - 29
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
ER  -