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Origin might matter; people matter, too (a response to the comment by Rejmánek and Simberloff (2017))

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2016

BRENDON M. H. LARSON ,
RENÉ VAN DER WAL ,
ANKE FISCHER  and
SEBASTIAN SELGE
BRENDON M. H. LARSON*
Affiliation:
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L3G1, Canada
RENÉ VAN DER WAL
Affiliation:
Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK
ANKE FISCHER
Affiliation:
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK
SEBASTIAN SELGE
Affiliation:
Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES), University of Aberdeen, School of Biological Sciences, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, UK Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen AB15 8QH, UK
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*Correspondence: Dr. Brendon Larson Tel: +1 519 888 4567 ext. 38140 e-mail: blarson@uwaterloo.ca
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We appreciate Rejmánek and Simberloff's (2017; henceforth R&S) response to our paper, as well as their review of the biological studies showing that non-native species are a ‘non-random’ group of species that are more likely to cause problems at some point in time than would be expected by chance. We note that the focus of their response lies almost exclusively on recently introduced species, which suggests that their argument might be less defensible for established introductions such as the ones covered by our study (Van der Wal et al. 2015). Moreover, R&S appear to have missed the major point of our paper, which is socio-cultural rather than strictly biological, so we briefly respond here in order to clarify our objective and results.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 2017 , pp. 100 - 101
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2016 

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Current address: Institute for Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, D-39106, Germany

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