Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems: Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions

✍ Scribed by João Canning-Clode (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 488
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

When organisms are deliberately or accidentally introduced into a new ecosystem a biological invasion may take place. These so-called ‘invasive species’ may establish, spread and ecologically alter the invaded community. Biological invasions by animals, plants, pathogens or vectors are one of the greatest environmental and economic threats and, along with habitat destruction, a leading cause of global biodiversity loss.
In this book, more than 50 worldwide invasion scientists cover our current understanding of biological invasions, its impacts, patterns and mechanisms in both aquatic and terrestrial systems.

Biological Invasions, Non-Indigenous Species (NIS), Introduced Species

✦ Table of Contents

General Introduction – Aquatic and TerrestrialBiological Invasions in the 21st Century
1 Anthropogenic Vectors of Marine and EstuarineInvasions: an Overview Framework
2 The Biogeography of Avian Invasions: History,Accident and Market Trade
3 Vectors for Spread of Invasive Freshwater VascularPlants with a North American Analysis
4 Invasions of Terrestrial Arthropods: Mechanisms,Pathways, and Dynamics
5 Vectors of Invasions in Freshwater Invertebratesand Fishes
6 Contribution of the Live Animal Trade to BiologicalInvasions
7 Parasites and Genetics in Marine InvertebrateIntroductions: Signatures of Diversity Declinesacross Systems
8 Invasive Crayfish and Their Invasive Diseasesin Europe with the Focus on the VirulenceEvolution of the Crayfish Plague
9 Host Dynamics and Ectoparasite Life Historiesof Invasive And Non-Invasive Deer Ked Populations
10 The Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) Invasionin Scandinavian Coastal Waters: Impact on LocalEcosystem Services
11 Invasive Seaweeds: Impacts and ManagementActions
12 Fighting Invasions in the Marine Realm, a CaseStudy with Caulerpa webbiana in the Azores
13 Reducing the Ecological Impact of Invasive CaneToads
14 Pine Invasions in South America: Reducing TheirEcological Impacts Through Active Management
15 Implications of Ship Type on Deliveryand Management of Ballast Water
16 Will Alien Plant Invaders Be Advantaged UnderFuture Climates?
17 Anticipating Invasions and Managing Impacts:A Review of Recent Spatiotemporal ModellingApproaches
18 Applications of DNA-based Methods for the Studyof Biological Invasions
19 Assembly Rules and Novel Assemblagesin Aquatic Ecosystems