The special issue of diversity and distributions volume 142 on fifty years of invasion ecology the legacy of charles elton contains 28 papers that address a very wide range of biogeographic ecological topics relating to biological invasions these papers were not solicited and represent the standard fare of accepted papers on invasion ecology in the journal similar in scope and cross section to previous volumes given the focus of the journal conservation biogeography . The publication in 1958 of charles eltons book the ecology of invasions by animals and plants launched the systematic study of biological invasions invasion ecology has grown to become an important multi disciplinary subfield of ecology with growing links to many other disciplines this paper examines the citation history of eltons book using the web of science we also examine eltons influence in shaping the current research agenda in invasion ecology for which we use the 28 papers . Richardson d fifty years of invasion ecology the legacy of charles elton richardson david m isbn 9781444335866 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Charles s eltons 1958 book on the ecology of invasions by animals and plants is generally acknowledged as the starting point for focussed scientific attention on biological invasions fig 1 invasion ecology has grown enormously in the 50 years since eltons volume appeared py s ek et al 2006 richardson py s ek 2007 the book has been very widely cited and has. Request pdf fifty years of invasion ecology the legacy of charles elton introductionthe evolution of eltons view of introduced speciesthe dissociation of invasion biology from succession