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    This book provides a comprehensive review of the field of invasion biology, the first such single-authored overview since 1996. It describes the science of biological invasions, including the processes of introduction, establishment, and spread of invasive species. The book also connects the science to applications by describing the health, economic, and ecological impacts of invasives and different management strategies. It critically evaluates approaches and controversies in the field and suggests future research directions. The book addresses a wide range of invasive species and ecosystems studied around the world.

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    This book provides a comprehensive review of the field of invasion biology, the first such single-authored overview since 1996. It describes the science of biological invasions, including the processes of introduction, establishment, and spread of invasive species. The book also connects the science to applications by describing the health, economic, and ecological impacts of invasives and different management strategies. It critically evaluates approaches and controversies in the field and suggests future research directions. The book addresses a wide range of invasive species and ecosystems studied around the world.

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    This book provides a comprehensive review of the field of invasion biology, the first such single-authored overview since 1996. It describes the science of biological invasions, including the processes of introduction, establishment, and spread of invasive species. The book also connects the science to applications by describing the health, economic, and ecological impacts of invasives and different management strategies. It critically evaluates approaches and controversies in the field and suggests future research directions. The book addresses a wide range of invasive species and ecosystems studied around the world.

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    With the exception of climate change, biological invasions have probably received more

    Mark A. Davis
    attention during the past ten years than any other ecological topic. Yet this is the first b i o logy
    synthetic, single-authored overview of the field since Williamson’s 1996 book. Written
    fifty years after the publication of Elton’s pion­eering monograph on the subject, In­vasion
    Biology provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the science of biological
    invasions while also offering new insights and perspectives relating to the processes of
    introduction, establishment, and spread. The book connects science with application
    by describing the health, economic, and ecological impacts of invasive species as well as
    the variety of management strategies developed to mitigate harmful impacts. The author
    critically evaluates the approaches, findings, and controversies that have characterized
    invasion biology in recent years, and suggests a variety of future research directions.
    Carefully balanced to avoid distinct taxonomic, ecosystem, and geographic biases, the
    book addresses a wide range of invasive species (including protists, invertebrates, ver­
    tebrates, fungi, and plants), which have been studied in marine, freshwater, and terres-

    Invasion Biology
    trial environments throughout the world by investigators equally diverse in their origins.
    This accessible and thought-provoking text will be of particular interest to graduate level
    students and established researchers in the fields of invasion biology, community ecol-
    ogy, conservation biology, and restoration ecology. It will also be of value and use to land
    managers, policy makers, and other professionals charged with controlling the negative
    impacts associated with recently arrived species.

    Mark Davis is a plant ecologist who has published in the areas


    of invasion biology, restoration ecology, succession ecology, and
    climate change. He has also published in the areas of avian and
    insect ecology. In the invasion field, he is best known for develop-
    ing, along with colleagues, the fluctuating invasibility hypothesis,
    which describes conditions under which environments are likely
    to be resistant or receptive to the introductions of new species.
    Davis is currently DeWitt Wallace Professor of Biology at
    Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.

    Mark A. Davis
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