Friday, May 15, 2009

Paper from Thursday

Darwin's naturalization conundrum: dissecting taxonomic patterns of species invasions
Ecology Letters
J. M. Diez and J. J. Sullivan and P. E. Hulme and G. Edwards and R. P. Duncan
2008

"This suggests that within habitats, biotic resistance due to competitive interactions or shared natural enemies may be playing a role. More direct tests are needed however, preferably through experimental manipulation, to assess how relatedness may or may not actually influence mechanisms such as competition."

Does that sound like a dare to you? I think it sounds like a dare...

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