Centre for Invasive Species - Workshop: Tackling the emerging crisis of invasion biology 8-10/3 2010 <p><strong><font size="3">8-10 March&nbsp;2010</font></strong></p><p>Organisers: <br />Tina Heger, Sylvia Haider, Anna Liebaug<br />Landscape Ecology, Technische Universit&auml;t M&uuml;nchen<br />Jonathan M. Jeschke<br />Department of Biology II, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit&auml;t<br />M&uuml;nchen</p><p>Venue: <br />Benediktbeuern (near Munich) ZUK Benediktbeuern, Zeilerweg 2, (Meierhof), D-83671 Benediktbeuern</p><p><strong>How can ecological theory, experiments, and field studies be combined to achieve major progress?</strong></p><p>Invasion biology is still a young ecological subdiscipline, but it already starts to show signs of age and its&nbsp; development is losing pace. Until recently, new concepts on invasive species were proposed on a monthly basis, and there was great excitement about finding new patterns and explaining them. More and more data have become available on invasive species which, however, often question existing concepts. For example, the results of small-scale experimental studies are sometimes in conflict with the results of largescale observational field studies, as is the case for the biotic resistance hypothesis. Some researchers also argue that many concepts cannot be tested at all, as for example data on the number of introduced species are typically unreliable. Broad concepts additionally have difficulties to capture differences among individual invasion events. As a consequence, the list of well-supported concepts on invasive species is awfully short. Invasion biology has entered its next stage, a stage that might be termed &quot;crisis&quot;.</p><p>See flyer <a href="http://www.invasion-ecology.de/downloads/Workshop2010.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> 2009-11-05T12:31:42Z tag:cis.danbif.dk,2009-11-05:/cooperation/fol195769/workshop-tackling-emerging-crisis-invasion http://cis.danbif.dk/misc_/CHM2/Site.gif DanBIF Centre for Invasive Species Workshop flyer tag:cis.danbif.dk,2010-02-04:/cooperation/fol195769/workshop-tackling-emerging-crisis-invasion/Flyer_invasions2010.pdf 2010-02-04T13:54:49Z Lotte Endsleff Lotte Endsleff