Authors: Daniel Simberloff
Publish Date: 2014/04/22
Volume: 16, Issue: 12, Pages: 2757-2759
Abstract
This volume aims to test theories of ecology primarily at the community level using case studies of biological invasions in Australasia most frequently Australia The cover—a photo of invasive camels—immediately attracted me as did the title my first entrée into invasion biology Simberloff 1981 having been in fact an attempt to test ecological theory primarily at the community level by dredging the literature on biological invasions—the goal of this book However the book disappoints on both counts Camels are mentioned only in passing in single sentences in two chapters on other topics and this volume treats two distinct “invasion” phenomena only one of which is the subject matter of modern invasion biology—introductions directly or indirectly aided by humans usually before European overseas expansion
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