Biological invasions

All ecosystems on Earth are undergoing rapid human-induced changes. One important component of these changes is the transport of species to new ecosystems, where they often establish and spread, and cause ecological disruption as invasive species. Behaviour plays a major role in…

Determining how diversity is generated and maintained in ecological communities is a central goal of community ecology and conservation. Ecologists have long aimed to explain the processes responsible for the assembly of communities and although many hypotheses have been propose…