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4 - Perspectives from parrots on biological invasions

from Part I - Ancient invaders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2014

By
Leo Joseph
Edited by
Herbert H. T. Prins  and
Iain J. Gordon
Leo Joseph
Affiliation:
Australian National Wildlife Collection
Herbert H. T. Prins
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Iain J. Gordon
Affiliation:
The James Hutton Institute, Scotland
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Introduction

This book is primarily concerned with how species colonise and invade new areas. It examines the evidence relevant to a suite of hypotheses concerning processes that occur on present-day populations in present-day landscapes. This chapter takes an approach different to that of many other chapters. Before examining the main hypotheses, it begins by exploring how the deeper evolutionary history of any species will inform design of research into that species’ ecology, behaviour and present distribution. The ecological and behavioural hypotheses one might test to describe the evolution of species in their current geographical and ecological ranges will depend on tests of relevant phylogenetic hypotheses about a species – its systematics. For example, only from a phylogenetic analysis can it be understood whether a species is part of relatively species-diverse or species-poor clades. So, too, in this way can it be best understood whether it shares an ecological trait with other species because it is closely related to them, or because the trait has arisen multiple times, or has been retained from a relatively distance ancestor. In the context of this book, this might usefully be seen as an ecological and behavioural view of historical biogeography, or how clarifying the past is the first step to fully understanding the present.

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Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory
Insights from a Continent in Transformation
 , pp. 58 - 82
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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