Journal
AMBIO
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 428-442Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-017-0897-7
Keywords
Biological invasions; Interdisciplinarity; Non-native species; Scientometrics; Social-ecological research
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Funding
- FSE/MEC
- FCT [PD/BD/52600/2014, SFRH/BPD/84044/2012]
- POPH/FSE
- FEDER-FCT [UID/BIA/50027/2013, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006821]
- CIBIO [UID/BIA/50027/2013]
- ACRP [KR13AC6K11141]
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
- National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa [85417]
- NRF [81825, 76912]
- Australian Research Council [DP150103017]
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) [NSF DBI-1052875]
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
- Synthesis Centre of iDiv [DFG FZT 118]
- Thomson Reuters
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PD/BD/52600/2014, SFRH/BPD/84044/2012] Funding Source: FCT
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1639145, 1052875] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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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