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SUBMITTER: Liebhold AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092358 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liebhold Andrew M AM Yamanaka Takehiko T Roques Alain A Augustin Sylvie S Chown Steven L SL Brockerhoff Eckehard G EG Pyšek Petr P
Scientific reports 20180814 1
During the last two centuries, thousands of insect species have been transported (largely inadvertently) and established outside of their native ranges worldwide, some with catastrophic ecological and economic impacts. Global variation in numbers of invading species depends on geographic variation in propagule pressure and heterogeneity of environmental resistance to invasions. Elton's diversity-invasibility hypothesis, proposed over sixty years ago, has been widely explored for plants but littl ...[more]