Questioning Invasion Biology

Books

• Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration – Tao Orion (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015)
• Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation – Hugh Warwick (Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2024)
• Do we Need Pandas? the Uncomfortable Truth about Biodiversity – Ken Thompson (Green Books, 2010)
• PESTS. How Humans Create Animal Villains – Bethany Brookshire (HarperCollins, 2022)
• The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology – James Stanescu and Kevin Cummings, eds. (Lexington Books, 2016)
• The New Wild. Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation – Fred Pearce (Beacon Press, 2015)
• The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move – Sonia Shah (Bloomsbury, 2021)
• Where do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species – Ken Thompson (Profile Books, 2015)

Academic papers 

• Cassini, Marcelo H. 2020. "A Review of the Critics of Invasion Biology". Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 95, no. 5: 1467–1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12624.
• Davis, Mark A., Matthew K. Chew, Richard J. Hobbs, Ariel E. Lugo, John J. Ewel, Geerat J. Vermeij, James H. Brown, Michael L. Rosenzweig, Mark R. Gardener, Scott P. Carroll, Ken Thompson, Steward T. A. Pickett, Juliet C. Stromberg, Peter Del Tredici, Katharine N. Suding, Joan G. Ehrenfeld, J. Philip Grime, Joseph Mascaro, and John C. Briggs. 2011. “Don’t Judge Species on Their Origins.” Nature 474, no. 7350 (June 8, 2011): 153–54. https://doi.org/10.1038/474153a
• Guiaşu, Radu Cornel, and Christopher W. Tindale. 2023. “Logical Fallacies Persist in Invasion Biology and Blaming the Messengers Will Not Improve Accountability in This Field: A Response to Frank et al.” Biology & Philosophy 38, no. 1 (2023): 3. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-023-09892-3
• Janovsky, Roman M. 2019. “Does Invasive Species Research Use More Militaristic Language? Advancing Research on Alien Species.” NeoBiota 44 (2019): 27–38. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.44.32925
• Kopnina, Helen, and Simon Coghlan. 2022. “Invasion Biology and Its Discontents: Human Supremacy, Language, and Animal Treatment.” Visions for Sustainability 18 (2022): 145–171. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/visions/article/view/6512
• Peretti, Jonah H. 1998. “Nativism and Nature: Rethinking Biological Invasion.” Environmental Values 7, no. 2: 183–92. https://doi.org/10.3197/096327198129341537.
• Seymour, Mona. 2013. “’Support Your Local Invasive Species’: Animal Protection Rhetoric and Nonnative Species.” Society & Animals 21, no. 1 (2013): 54–73. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-12341269
• Shelton, Jo-Anne. 2011. “Killing Animals That Don’t Fit In: Moral Dimensions of Habitat Restoration.” Between the Species 13, no. 4 (2011): Article 3. https://doi.org/10.15368/bts.2004v13n4.3
• Valéry, Loïc, Hervé Fritz, and Jean-Claude Lefeuvre. 2013. “Another Call for the End of Invasion Biology.” Oikos 122, no. 8 (August): 1143–1146. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00445.x

Opinion

• Crawford, Amy. 2018. “Why We Should Rethink How We Talk About ‘Alien’ Species.” Smithsonian Magazine, January 9, 2018. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-scientists-are-starting-rethink-how-they-talk-about-alien-species-180967761/
• Lower, El, and Tim Campbell. 2024. “Alien Language: Reflections on the Rhetoric of Invasion Biology.” Oceanography37, no. 1 (2024): 68–69. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.208
• Simberloff, Daniel. 2014. “A Defensive Tirade from Invasion Biologists.” Million Trees (blog), November 14, 2014. https://milliontrees.me/2014/11/14/a-defensive-tirade-from-invasion-biologists/.

• Zwarenstein, Carlyn. 2025. “Invasion Metaphors in Conservation Biology Pose Real-World Risk.” Undark Magazine, October 2, 2025. https://undark.org/2025/10/02/invasion-metaphors-conservation/.