This impressive volume focuses on an emerging research topic: the role of animal behavior in driving the success, speed, and impact of biological invasions; and in enabling managers to mitigate the impacts of those invasions. The 18 chapters are written by experts from a variety of countries and disciplines, working on a diverse array of species. The chapters range from theory-driven approaches, with an emphasis on modeling, to empirical analyses of specific case histories. Befitting their increasingly important role in research on invasion biology, ectothermic vertebrates feature strongly in five of the chapters, and incidentally in many others. And, gratifyingly for someone who has worked on the species, the photograph on the front cover is of a Cane Toad (Rhinella marina).
Three chapters focus on invasive fish species. In the first of these chapters, Amy Deacon and Anne Magurran review the role of behavior in contributing to invasion...
