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Behaviour and Aquatic Invasions in the 21st Century: Progress, Trends and Future Research
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Magellan, Kit Deacon, Amy E. Wong, M. Alexander, Mapfumo |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Welcome to the Behaviour and Invasions Special Issue of Aquatic Invasions. In the 20 years since Holway and Suarez (1999) issued their plea for behavioural analyses to be more fully integrated into invasion studies, have things changed, and if so how? This Special Issue was conceived because behaviour seemed rarely to be the focus of studies of biological invasions: at Aquatic Invasions we received only two or three behavioural submissions per year (KM pers. obs.). This is a critical oversight as behaviour is central to understanding how animals interact with their environment, which is particularly important in species introductions. This may also suggest that progress in the field of behaviour and invasions is limited, but the papers in this Special Issue show how much this field has evolved over the last 20 years. The 11 papers presented here cover behavioural topics ranging from predator-prey interactions through competition to learning, and focus on fish, amphibian and invertebrate model species. However, perhaps the most striking pattern is geographical. The research for this Special Issue, together with the invasive model species, encompasses both Northern and Southern hemispheres and spans six continents from Asia to the Americas, with mostly multinational author teams. Behaviour and invasions is a truly global field of research. The most common theme of this Special Issue is predator-prey behaviour, aspects of which are the focus of five papers. This is an important consideration for biological invasions: introduced species usually do not share an evolutionary history with the novel species in their invaded habitat which may enable them to exploit vulnerable native prey species or mean they become naïve prey themselves (Sih et al. 2010). We open with Levri et al. (2019), who examined floating behaviour in different clones of the New Zealand mud snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum, which has invaded several water bodies in the U.S.A. These snails are able to float up Citation: Magellan K, Alexander M, Deacon A, Wong M (2019) Behaviour and Aquatic Invasions in the 21 Century: Progress, Trends and Future Research. Aquatic Invasions 14(3): 412–416, https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.3.01 |
| Starting Page | 412 |
| Ending Page | 416 |
| Page Count | 5 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3391/ai.2019.14.3.01 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.reabic.net/aquaticinvasions/2019/AI_2019_Editorial.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2019.14.3.01 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
