This book, containing 18 chapters, combines the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach with hypothesis networks for invasion biology. This book aims to further develop the HoH approach by inviting critical comments (Part I), apply it to 12 major invasion hypotheses (Part II) and explore how it can be expanded to a hierarchically structured hypothesis network (Chapter 7 and Part III). It is important to also check out the companion website that features, for instance, data from the ~1100 studies analysed in Part II of the book. Importantly and as outlined in Chapter 17, this website will be further updated and developed to become a powerful web portal for invasion biology and other research disciplines in the future.

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• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword
• PART I: INTRODUCTION TO INVASION BIOLOGY AND THE HIERARCHY-OF-HYPOTHESES APPROACH
  • 1 Invasion Biology: Searching for Predictions and Prevention and Avoiding Lost Causes
  • 2 The Hierarchy-of-hypotheses Approach
  • 3 Hierarchy of Hypotheses or Hierarchy of Predictions? Clarifying Key Concepts in Ecological Research
  • 4 Mapping Theoretical and Evidential Landscapes in Ecological Science: Levins’ Virtue Trade-off and the Hierarchy-of-hypotheses Approach
  • 5 A Hierarchy of Hypotheses or a Network of Models
  • 6 The Hierarchy-of-hypotheses Approach Updated – a Toolbox for Structuring and Analysing Theory, Research and Evidence
• PART II: HYPOTHESIS NETWORK AND 12 FOCAL HYPOTHESES
  • 7 A Network of Invasion Hypotheses
  • 8 Biotic Resistance and Island Susceptibility Hypotheses
  • 9 Disturbance Hypothesis
  • 10 Invasional Meltdown Hypothesis
  • 11 Enemy Release Hypothesis
  • 12 Evolution of Increased Competitive Ability and Shifting Defence Hypotheses
  • 13 Tens Rule
  • 14 Phenotypic Plasticity Hypothesis
  • 15 Darwin’s Naturalization and Limiting Similarity Hypotheses
  • 16 Propagule Pressure Hypothesis
• PART III: SYNTHESIS AND OUTLOOK
  • 17 Synthesis
  • 18 Conclusions and Outlook
• Index
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