The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

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Elton sought to articulate more explicitly his vision of an entire field of invasion science. The 1958 book, aimed at an educated lay audience, was almost wholly descriptive, dominated by striking examples of the nature and scope of particular invasions beginning with the seven examples detailed in Chapter 1. From the materials in the proof copy and other sources, we can imagine a new edition would also have targeted biologists and been somewhat more technical and prescriptive. In autobiographical notes he penned near the end of his life, Elton wrote regarding EIAP , "This whole subject has deep significance for the study of plant and animal communities and their balance (or unbalance)," 19 and indeed many of the reprints and notes refer to interactions among species and community-wide effects.


The Invaders
Wallace's Realms: the Archipelago of Continents
The Invasion of Continents
The Fate of Remote Islands
Changes in the Sea
The Balance between Populations
New Food-chains for Old
The Reasons for Conservation
The Conservation of Variety
ISBN 978-3-030-34720-8
Article number 9783030347208
Media type Book
Edition number 2. Aufl.
Copyright year 2020
Publisher Springer, Berlin
Length XXI, 261 pages
Illustrations XXI, 261 p. 100 illus.
Language English