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Disturbance, invasion and re‐invasion: managing the weed‐shaped hole in disturbed ecosystems

Overview of attention for article published in Ecology Letters, July 2007
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Title
Disturbance, invasion and re‐invasion: managing the weed‐shaped hole in disturbed ecosystems
Published in
Ecology Letters, July 2007
DOI 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01067.x
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Authors

Yvonne M. Buckley, Benjamin M. Bolker, Mark Rees

Abstract

We aim to develop a simple model to explore how disturbance and propagule pressure determine conditions for successful invasion in systems where recruitment occurs only in disturbed sites. Disturbance is often thought to favour invaders as it allows recruitment; however, the effects of disturbance are more complicated when it results in mortality of the invader. When disturbance rates in both invader occupied and unoccupied sites are the same, recruitment and mortality effects are exactly balanced, and successful invasion is independent of the disturbance regime. Differences in the disturbance rates between invader occupied and unoccupied sites can occur through invader modification or management of disturbance. Under these conditions, we found a novel mechanism for the generation of an Allee effect, which occurs when the invader promotes disturbance in sites it already occupies. When Allee effects occur one-off, large-scale disturbances can result in permanent, dramatic shifts in invader abundance; and conversely, reducing the population below a critical threshold can cause extinction.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 7 3%
South Africa 4 1%
Australia 3 1%
United Kingdom 3 1%
Brazil 3 1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 241 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 72 27%
Student > Ph. D. Student 54 20%
Student > Master 27 10%
Student > Bachelor 20 7%
Professor 16 6%
Other 51 19%
Unknown 30 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 129 48%
Environmental Science 88 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 1%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 3 1%
Mathematics 2 <1%
Other 4 1%
Unknown 41 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 March 2022.
All research outputs
#4,323,845
of 24,525,936 outputs
Outputs from Ecology Letters
#1,843
of 3,024 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,962
of 70,025 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Ecology Letters
#7
of 19 outputs
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