Biological Invasions in Changing Ecosystems

Vectors, Ecological Impacts, Management and Predictions

João Canning-Clode

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9783110438659
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110438666
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

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.

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