Introduction to special Issue: Biological Invasions in Southern South America: a first step towards a synthesis

DIEGO VAZQUEZ; ROXANA ARAGÓN

BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Kluwer Academic Publishers

Lugar: Netherlands; Año: 2002 vol. 4 p. 1 - 5

1387-3547

Ecologists and conservation biologists have been aware of the problem of biological invasions for many decades. Many generalizations about invasions have been proposed, such as the notion that species-rich communities are more ‘resistant’ to invasions than their species-poor counterparts or that highly invasive species have certain life-history characteristics that make them good invaders  However, many exceptions to the proposed generalizations have been documented and our predictive ability remains limited.