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| Author(s): | M. A. Davis |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780199218769 |
| Format: | softback |
| 244pp | |
| Price: | £32.50 |
| Review Date: | 12 March 2009 |
| Review: | This textbook aims to provide a consistent and unifying perspective to the field of invasion biology, reflecting, in particular, the research and opinions since the turn of the millennium. The book is divided into three parts: The first four chapters describe the invasion process, giving the current understanding of the patterns of dispersal, establishment, and spread of non-native species and our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that produce these patterns; the following chapter gives an integrated approach to understanding predicted invasions. The next part has a more applied approach and looks at impact and management. In the last part the author gives his own reflections on the field of invasion biology and its future. |