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Functional responses can unify invasion ecology

2017; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 19; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10530-016-1355-3

1573-1464

Jaimie T. A. Dick, Mhairi E. Alexander, Anthony Ricciardi, Ciaran Laverty, Paul Downey, Meng Xu, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Wolf‐Christian Saul, Matthew P. Hill, Ryan J. Wasserman, Daniel Barrios‐O’Neill, Olaf L. F. Weyl, Richard Shaw,

Plant and animal studies

Abstract We contend that invasion ecology requires a universal, measurable trait of species and their interactions with resources that predicts key elements of invasibility and ecological impact; here, we advocate that functional responses can help achieve this across taxonomic and trophic groups, among habitats and contexts, and can hence help unify disparate research interests in invasion ecology.