Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology: The Legacy of Charles Elton

David M. Richardson is Professor in the Department of Botany & Zoology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and Director of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology. He is one of the most prolific authors in invasion ecology and was awarded the 2006 Hans Sigrist Prize and the 2012 John Hershel Medal of the Royal Society of South Africa for his work in this field.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and since 1998 has been Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Diversity and Distributions (Wiley-Blackwell).