Biological Invasions and Animal Behaviour

Judith S. Weis is Professor Emerita in Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and serves on advisory committees for federal agencies and the UN. Her research focuses on salt marshes, fish, crabs, and stresses in estuaries, including pollution and invasive species. Daniel Sol is a National Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Scientist at the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF) in Catalonia, Spain. His research focuses on the causes and consequences of animal responses to environmental changes.

• 1. Introduction Andrew V. Suarez and Phillip Cassey; Part I. Behaviour and the Invasion Process: 2. The role of behavioural variation and behavioural syndromes across different stages of the introduction process David G. Chapple and Bob B. M. Wong; 3. Invading new environments: a mechanistic framework linking motor diversity and cognitive processes to invasion success Andrea S. Griffin, D. Guez, I. Federspiel, Marie Diquelou and F. Lermite; 4. Invader endocrinology: the regulation of a pesky phenotype Lynn B. Martin, Amber J. Brace, Holly J. Kilvitis and Stephanie S. Gervasi; 5. Life history, behaviour and the establishment in novel environments Daniel Sol and Joan Maspons; 6. Behaviour on invasion fronts, and the behaviour of invasion fronts Ben L. Phillips; 7. The role of dispersal behaviour and personality in post-establishment spread Jennifer S. Rehage, Julien Cote and Andrew Sih; Part II. Behavioural Interactions between Invaders and Native Species: 8. Invasive plants as novel food resources: the pollinators' perspective Ignasi Bartomeus, Jochen Fründ and Neal M. Williams; 9. In the light of introduction: importance of introduced populations for the study of brood parasite-host coevolution Tomáš Grim and Bård G. Stokke; 10. Flight behaviour of an introduced parasite affects its Galapagos Island hosts: Philornis downsi and Darwin's finches Sonia Kleindorfer, Katherina Peters, Leon Hohl and Frank Sulloway; 11. Eat or be eaten: invasion and predation in aquatic ecosystems Judith S. Weis; 12. Evolutionary novelty and the behaviour of introduced predators Edwin D. Grosholz and Elizabeth H. Wells; Part III. Case Studies: 13. Behaviours mediating ant invasions Jules Silverman and Grzegorz Buczkowski; 14. Invasions by mosquitoes: the roles of behaviour across the life cycle Steven A. Juliano and L. Philip Lounibus; 15. How behaviour contributes to the success of an invasive poeciliid fish: the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata) as a model species Amy E. Deacon and Anne E. Magurran; 16. How behaviour has helped invasive crayfish to conquer freshwater ecosystems Elena Tricarico and Laura Aquiloni; 17. Behaviours of Pacific lionfish facilitate invasion of the Atlantic Mark A. Albins; 18. Wildlife trade, behaviour and avian invasions Martina Carrete and José L. Tella; Index.

'[We] recommend this book to readers at the graduate level or above … We particularly recommend it to researchers who are looking for open avenues of research in invasive behavior to explore. … a diverse set of researchers will benefit from reading this timely, comprehensive overview of the behaviors that characterize invasive species.' Angela Chuang and Jordan M. Bush, Biol Invasions