Breaching the dispersal barrier to invasion: quantification and management

• Main Authors: Lee, J.E., Chown, S.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America 2010
• Subjects: Antarctica; biosecurity; Gough Island; intra-regional movement; invasion; invasion pathway; Marion Island; propagule pressure; seed dispersal; Antarctic; Gough; The Antarctic; Antarc*; South African National Antarctic Programme
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/119891

Globalization has resulted in unprecedented movements of people, goods, and alien species across the planet. Although the impacts of biological invasions are widely appreciated, a bias exists in research effort to post-dispersal processes because of the difficulties of measuring propagule pressure....