ABSTRACT
In the last two decades, many studies have explored the complex interaction between the characteristics of non-native species that enable them to efficiently invade an ecosystem (‘invasiveness’) and the properties of the new recipient ecosystems that make them susceptible to invasion (‘invasibility’) (Alpert et al, 2000). Surprisingly, there has been relatively little research into the social causes and consequences of biological invasions outside a selected set of agricultural pests (Perrings et al, 2002). Most studies ignore the human components of how nature and human societies interact to determine ecosystem invasibility, and how bio-invasions affect people’s behaviour. (See Lambert this volume, Chapter 11).
