Reading Assignments for 10/5 - 10/7

10/5 (Tuesday)

Direct Disturbance and its Effects on Invasion

• "Disturbance, Diversity and Invasion: Implications for Conservation." by Richard J. Hobbs and Laura F. Huenneke. (1992) Conservation Biology. 6(3) pp. 324-337. [Available to download from Prometheus system]
  
• "Experimental evidence on the importance of disturbance intensity for invasion of Lantana camara L. in dry rainforest-open forest ecotones in north-eastern NSW, Australia" by J.A. Duggin and C.B. Gentle. (1998) Forest Ecology and Management. 109 pp. 279-292. [Available to download from Prometheus system]

10/7 (Thursday)

Indirect Disturbance and its Effects on Invasion
Our Guest Speaker for today will be Dr. Jeffrey Dukes

• Does global change increase the success of biological invaders? by Jeffrey Dukes and Harold Mooney. (1999) Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 14(4) pp. 135-139. (.pdf)
  
• "Impacts of Biological Invasions on Disturbance Regimes." by Michelle C. Mack and Carla M. D'Antonio. (1998) Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 13(5) pp. 195-198. [Available to download from Prometheus system]