Invasion Biology: Hypotheses and Evidence (CABI Invasives Series)

By: James Griesemer and Gordon A. Fox and Julie L. Lockwood and Sabrina Amador-Vargas and Tim M. Blackburn and Raul Rennó Braga and Phillip Cassey and Simon Debille and Martin Enders and Felix Erhard and Alejandro G. Farji-Brener and Pablo García-Díaz and Lorena Gómez Aparicio and Christopher J. Lortie and Caroline Müller and Regina Nordheimer and Petr Pysek and Samuel M. Scheiner and Julian Starzer and Olena Torchyk and Jean Ricardo Vitule

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Synopsis: Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by (a) further developing a tool for assessing research hypotheses and (b) applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach. Part 1, an overview chapter of invasion biology will be followed by an introduction to the HoH approach and short chapters of science theorists and philosophers that comment on the approach. Part 2 outlines the 30 invasion hypotheses and their interrelationships. Part 3 suggests future directions of invasion research.