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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-85-2014
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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-85-2014
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Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
AGORA: Ideas and Concepts
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14 Jan 2015
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Demography gone wild in native species: four reasons to avoid the term "native invaders"

M. Méndez, A. Escudero, J. M. Iriondo, and R. M. Viejo
How to cite. Méndez, M., Escudero, A., Iriondo, J. M., and Viejo, R. M.: Demography gone wild in native species: four reasons to avoid the term "native invaders", Web Ecol., 14, 85–87, https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-85-2014, 2014.
Received: 14 Oct 2014 – Revised: 03 Dec 2014 – Accepted: 04 Dec 2014 – Published: 14 Jan 2015
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Native invaders are species that become ``invasive'' in their own native range to the point of becoming a nuisance. This demographic disregulation presents management challenges, but we question the usefulness of this term on four grounds: it adds nothing to a well-known management problem, can bias the perception of management options, neglects different causes underlying the disregulation of native and non-indigenous species, and excludes species that can become antropogenically disregulated.
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