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Foreword to Chapter Three

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The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

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In Chap. 3 , Elton invoked the notion of a homogenized world owing to invasions: “If we look far enough ahead, the eventual state of the biological world will become not more complex but simpler—and poorer.” He illustrated the concept with the elegant example of six great liquid-filled tanks (ersatz continents), each possessing unique chemical solutions, connected by narrow tubing (human transportation systems) blocked by taps (geographic barriers). The taps, he noted, are being opened with greater frequency and the result has been a slow but ever-increasing homogenizing mixture.

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Simberloff, D., Ricciardi, A. (2020). Foreword to Chapter Three. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_5

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