Plant invasions: merging the concepts of species invasiveness and community invasibility

This paper considers key issues in plant invasion ecology, where findings published since 1990 have significantly improved our understanding of many aspects of invasions. The review focuses on vascular plants invading natural and semi-natural ecosystems, and on fundamental ecological issues relating to species invasiveness and community invasibility. Three big questions addressed by the SCOPE programme in the 1980s (which species invade; which habitats are invaded; and how can we manage invasions?) still underpin most work in invasion ecology. Some organizing and unifying themes in the field are organism-focused and relate to species invasiveness (the tens rule; the concept of residence time; taxonomic…

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  European Commission
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  Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
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  DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
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  Division of Materials Research