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Volume 14, issue 1
Volume 14, issue 1
Web Ecol., 14, 85–87, 2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-85-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
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Special issue: AGORA: Ideas and Concepts

Web Ecol., 14, 85–87, 2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-14-85-2014
© Author(s) 2014. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Volume 14, issue 1

AGORA: Ideas and Concepts 14 Jan 2015

AGORA: Ideas and Concepts | 14 Jan 2015

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 M. Méndez et al.
  • Área de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, c/ Tulipán s/n., 28933 Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
Received: 14 Oct 2014 – Revised: 03 Dec 2014 – Accepted: 04 Dec 2014 – Published: 14 Jan 2015
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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.
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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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