A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

0365136 - BÚ 2012 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Blackburn, T. M. - Pyšek, Petr - Bacher, S. - Carlton, J. T. - Duncan, R. P. - Jarošík, Vojtěch - Wilson, J. R. U. - Richardson, D. M.
A proposed unified framework for biological invasions.
Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Roč. 26, č. 7 (2011), s. 333-339. ISSN 0169-5347. E-ISSN 1872-8383
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA206/09/0563; GA MŠMT LC06073
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : biological invasions * invasion process * general framework
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 15.748, year: 2011

There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years, but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists concerned with different taxa and different environments have largely adopted different model frameworks for the invasion process, resulting in a confusing range of concepts, terms and definitions. In this review, we propose a unified framework for biological invasions that reconciles and integrates the key features of the most commonly used invasion frameworks into a single conceptual model that can be applied to all human-mediated invasions. The unified framework combines previous stage-based and barrier models, and provides a terminology and categorisation for populations at different points in the invasion process.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0200451