| Title |
The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Ambio, February 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13280-017-0897-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ana S. Vaz, Christoph Kueffer, Christian A. Kull, David M. Richardson, Stefan Schindler, A. Jesús Muñoz-Pajares, Joana R. Vicente, João Martins, Cang Hui, Ingolf Kühn, João P. Honrado |
| Abstract |
Interdisciplinarity is needed to gain knowledge of the ecology of invasive species and invaded ecosystems, and of the human dimensions of biological invasions. We combine a quantitative literature review with a qualitative historical narrative to document the progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science since 1950. Our review shows that 92.4% of interdisciplinary publications (out of 9192) focus on ecological questions, 4.4% on social ones, and 3.2% on social-ecological ones. The emergence of invasion science out of ecology might explain why interdisciplinarity has remained mostly within the natural sciences. Nevertheless, invasion science is attracting social-ecological collaborations to understand ecological challenges, and to develop novel approaches to address new ideas, concepts, and invasion-related questions between scholars and stakeholders. We discuss ways to reframe invasion science as a field centred on interlinked social-ecological dynamics to bring science, governance and society together in a common effort to deal with invasions. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| South Africa | 3 | 16% |
| Spain | 2 | 11% |
| Germany | 2 | 11% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 9 | 47% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 74% |
| Scientists | 5 | 26% |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 206 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 49 | 24% |
| Researcher | 32 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 22 | 11% |
| Other | 13 | 6% |
| Other | 32 | 15% |
| Unknown | 33 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 61 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 60 | 29% |
| Social Sciences | 14 | 7% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 6 | 3% |
| Engineering | 5 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 6% |
| Unknown | 49 | 24% |
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