Networks of Invasion: Empirical Evidence and Case Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-12-813328-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC PR INC

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 585 g

Reihe: Advances in Ecological Researc

Networks of Invasion: Networks of Invasion: Empirical Evidence and Case Studies, Volume 57 bridges a conceptual gap between ecological network studies and invasion biology studies. This book contains chapters detailing pressing concerns regarding invasive species in food webs, but also extends the idea of networks of invasion to other systems, such as mutualistic networks or even the human microbiome. Chapters describe the tools, models and empirical methods adapted for tackling invasions in ecological networks, including sections on parasites and biological invasions, invasions in freshwater systems, and those in host-associated microbiome networks.

In addition, the book provides interesting discussions on the importance of microorganisms and their relationship to macroorganisms.

Zielgruppe

Environmentalists, ecologists at undergraduate through to research level, social scientists and economists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bohan, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bohan, David

Dumbrell, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Parasites and Biological Invasions: Predicting Ecological Alterations at Levels from Individual Hosts to Whole Networks V. Médoc, C. Firmat, D.J. Sheath, J. Pegg, D. Andreou and J.R. Britton 2. Novel and Disrupted Trophic Links Following Invasion in Freshwater Ecosystems M.C. Jackson, R.J. Wasserman, J. Grey, A. Ricciardi, J.T.A. Dick and M.E. Alexander 3. Importance of Microorganisms to Macroorganisms Invasions - Is the Essential Invisible to the Eye? L. Amsellem, C. Brouat, O. Duron, S.S. Porter, A. Vilcinskas and B. Facon 4. Massively Introduced Managed Species and their Consequences for Plant-Pollinator Interactions B. Geslin, B. Gauzens, M. Baude, I. Dajoz, C. Fontaine, M. Henry, L. Ropars, O. Rollin, E. Thébault and N.J. Vereecken 5. Invasions of Host-Associated Microbiome Networks C.L. Murall, J.L. Abbate, M.P. Touzel, E. Allen-Vercoe, S. Alizon, R. Froissart and K. McCann

Über Autor(innen)

Bohan, David
Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial 'waves' in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seedbank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system therefore integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services.
Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.

Dumbrell, Alex
Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.