I pose eight questions central to understanding how biological invasions affect ecosystems,
assess progress towards answering those questions and suggest ways in which progress …

Boom‐bust dynamics–the rise of a population to outbreak levels, followed by a dramatic
decline–have been associated with biological invasions and offered as a reason not to …

Species introductions are a dominant component of biodiversity change but are not explicitly
included in most discussions of biodiversity–disease relationships. This is a major oversight …

Although a small set of external factors account for much of the spatial variation in plant and
animal diversity, the search continues for general drivers of variation in parasite species …

A fundamental assumption in invasion biology is that most invasive species exhibit
enhanced performance in their introduced range relative to their home ranges. This idea has …

The factors that promote invasive behavior in introduced plant species occur across many
scales of biological and ecological organization. Factors that act at relatively small scales …

Macroecology is the study of patterns, and the processes that determine those patterns, in
the distribution and abundance of organisms at large scales, whether they be spatial (from …

The diversity of pathogens on highly abundant introduced hosts has been positively
correlated with time since introduction, geographical range of the introduced species and …

Many exotic plant invaders pose a serious threat to native communities, but little is known
about the dynamics of their impacts over time. In this study, we explored the impact of an …

In ecology, a hypothesis is usually not discarded if a few studies reject it, as long as there
are other studies supporting it. How to assess the usefulness of ecological hypotheses is …