Biological invasions and natural colonisations: are they that different?
- 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.
Author: | Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Franck CourchampORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-455129 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.29.6959 |
Parent Title (English): | NeoBiota |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2018/01/23 |
Tag: | Alien; biological invasion; colonisation; dispersal; exotic; introduction; invasion |
Volume: | 2016 |
Issue: | 29 |
Page Number: | 14 |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 14 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 425432009 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | NeoBiota / NeoBiota 29 |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-455045 |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |