Reddit mentions of Invasion Ecology

Going to the source: role of the invasion pathway in determining potential invaders (Wonham et al, 2001, Marine Ecology Progress Series). This paper looks at organisms transferred during a ship's ballast exchange

Trophic cascades triggered by over fishing reveal possible mechanisms of ecosystem regime shifts (Daskalov et al, 2007, PNAS).


Twenty years of zebra mussles: lessons from the mollusk that made headlines (David L. Strayer, 2008, Frontiers in Ecology). This is a review paper, but still pretty worthwhile. It gives a good overview of the invasion, ecological/economic impacts, and policy regarding the mussles.


You said you were interested in the genetic side of things as well, so you might enjoy these papers as well:

High genetic variance in life-history strategies within invasive populations by way of multiple introductions (Facon and Pointier et al, 2008, Current Biology)

Adaptive evolution in invasive species (Prentis and Wilson et al, 2008, Cell Press). This is also a review article, but I found it interesting, and if nothing else, use it for the references!

Sorry I'm too lazy to type up full citations for these... if you need help finding any of them I may also have pdfs that I could probably mace a Google doc of and send to you. Happy reading!

Edit: invasion ecology is also a pretty good book for lots of reviews, mecanisms, and other fundamental understandings