Resources

Bridgewater, P., Higgs, E.S., Hobbs, R.J. and Jackson, S.T. (2011) Engaging with novel ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9(8):423-423.

Davis, M.A. 2009. Invasion Biology. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK,

Hobbs, R.J., Arico S, Aronson J, Baron JS, Bridgewater P, Cramer VA, Epstein PR, Ewell JJ, Klink CA, Lugo AE, Norton D, Ojima D, Richardson DM, Sanderson EW, Valladares F, Vila M, Zamora R, and Zobel M (2006) Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 15, 1-7.

Hobbs, R.J., Higgs, E and Harris, J.A. (2009) Novel ecosystems: implications for conservation and restoration. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 24 (11):599-605.

Hobbs, R.J. and Richardson, D.M. (2011) Invasion ecology and restoration ecology: Parallel evolution in two fields of endeavour. Pp 61-69 in Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton, edited by D.M. Richardson. Blackwell, Oxford. ISBN13: 978-1-4443-3585-9

Lugo, A.E. (2004) The outcome of alien tree invasions in Puerto Rico. Frontiers in Ecology and The Environment, 2, 265-273.

Marris, E. 2011. Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World. Bloosmbury USA.

Mascaro, J., et al. 2008. Limited native plant regeneration in novel, exotic-dominated forests on Hawai’i. Forest Ecology and Management. 256(4):593–606

Christopher P. Quine, Jonathan W. Humphrey. (2010) Plantations of exotic tree species in Britain: irrelevant for biodiversity or novel habitat for native species?. Biodiversity and Conservation 19:5, 1503-1512

Timothy R. Seastedt, Richard J Hobbs, and Katharine N Suding. 2008. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6: 547–553.

U.S. Federal laws pertaining to non-native species http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/laws/publiclaws.shtml

On Line Articles/Editorials

Living with nature’s original sin (Sydney Morning Herald, December 10, 2011)

You Can’t Evolve If You’re Extinct: Novel Ecosystems & the Forgotten Food Web (September 13, 2011)

Davis, M.A., Chew, M.K., Hobbs, R.J. et al. (2011) Don’t judge species on their origins. Nature. 474(9Jun11):153-154.

Alien Invasion? An Ecologist Doubts the Impact of Exotic Species (Scientific American, August 14, 2009)

Mother Nature’s Melting Pot (New York Times, April 2, 2011)

The Rise of Novel Ecosystems (ASLA’s The Dirt, April 6, 2011)