Human impacts, energy availability and invasion across Southern Ocean Islands

• Main Authors: Chown, SL, Hull, B, Gaston, KJ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 2007
• Subjects: biological invasions; disturbance; diversity; human history; insects; introduced species; propagule pressure; vascular plants; Southern Ocean; Heard Island; Tristan; Ocean Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/119998

Aim Ongoing biological invasions will enhance the impacts of humans on biodiversity. Nonetheless, the effects of exotic species on diversity are idiosyncratic. Increases in diversity might be a consequence of similar responses by species to available energy, or because of positive relationships betw...