The progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science |
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| Authors: | Ana S. Vaz Christoph Kueffer Christian A. Kull David M. Richardson Stefan Schindler A. Jesús Muñoz-Pajares Joana R. Vicente João Martins Cang Hui Ingolf Kühn João P. Honrado |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Research Network in Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology,Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (InBIO-CIBIO),Vair?o,Portugal;2.Faculty of Sciences,University of Porto (FCUP),Porto,Portugal;3.Institute of Integrative Biology,ETH Zurich,Zurich,Switzerland;4.Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology,Stellenbosch University,Matieland,South Africa;5.Institute of Geography and Sustainability,University of Lausanne,Lausanne,Switzerland;6.Centre for Geography and Environmental Science,Monash University,Clayton,Australia;7.Environment Agency Austria,Vienna,Austria;8.Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology,University of Vienna,Vienna,Austria;9.Department of Mathematical Sciences, Centre for Invasion Biology,Stellenbosch University,Matieland,South Africa;10.Theoretical Ecology Group,African Institute for Mathematical Sciences,Cape Town,South Africa;11.Department of Community Ecology,UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research,Halle,Germany;12.Geobotany and Botanical Garden,Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg,Halle,Germany;13.German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig,Leipzig,Germany |
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| Abstract: | Interdisciplinarity is needed to gain knowledge of the ecology of invasive species and invaded ecosystems, and of the human dimensions of biological invasions. We combine a quantitative literature review with a qualitative historical narrative to document the progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science since 1950. Our review shows that 92.4% of interdisciplinary publications (out of 9192) focus on ecological questions, 4.4% on social ones, and 3.2% on social–ecological ones. The emergence of invasion science out of ecology might explain why interdisciplinarity has remained mostly within the natural sciences. Nevertheless, invasion science is attracting social–ecological collaborations to understand ecological challenges, and to develop novel approaches to address new ideas, concepts, and invasion-related questions between scholars and stakeholders. We discuss ways to reframe invasion science as a field centred on interlinked social–ecological dynamics to bring science, governance and society together in a common effort to deal with invasions. |
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