To control non-native species, resource managers may import and introduce biocontrol agents. Like accidentally introduced insects, biocontrol agents must overcome several abiotic and biotic obstacles to establish successfully. They can also have varying efficacy and negative or positive impacts on native species and ecosystems. Given the similarities between accidentally introduced insects and biocontrol agents, researchers studying these organisms can more effectively communicate and actively link data to improve overall understanding and management of non-native species within the framework(s) of invasion theory. To assess interdisciplinarity between invasion ecologists and biocontrol practitioners that study insects in forests, we identified 102 invasion ecology and 90 biocontrol articles published from 2006 to 2018. These articles helped us determine which broad disciplines (invasion ecology, biocontrol, other control, other ecological, and nonecological) and publication formats (e.g., journals and books) the authors cited most. We found 1) invasion ecologists primarily cite other invasion ecology research; 2) biocontrol researchers cite biocontrol and invasion ecology research; 3) both disciplines primarily cited peer-reviewed journal articles; and 4) there was 65–70% overlap in the top 20 journals cited in primary invasion ecology and biocontrol literature. Though we found some cross-communication, it is currently mostly unidirectional, whereby invasion ecology informs biocontrol. We identify and discuss three areas—1) ecological principles governing success or failure of introduced species, 2) the invasion process, and 3) negative impacts on native species—for which the disciplines possess substantial overlap to demonstrate that biocontrol agents can provide invasion ecologists with an unconventional model to study the mechanisms of species invasion.

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加强绑定的纽带：入侵生态学专家和昆虫生物学控制研究人员之间跨学科交流的评估

为了控制外来物种，资源管理者可以进口和引进生物防治剂。像意外引入的昆虫一样，生物防治剂必须克服几个非生物和生物障碍才能成功建立。它们还可能对本地物种和生态系统产生不同的功效以及负面或正面影响。鉴于意外引入的昆虫与生物防治剂之间的相似性，研究这些生物的研究人员可以在入侵理论的框架内更有效地交流和主动链接数据，以提高对非本地物种的整体理解和管理。为了评估入侵生态学家和研究森林中昆虫的生物防治从业者之间的学科交叉性，我们确定了2006年至2018年发表的102篇入侵生态学和90篇生物防治文章。这些文章帮助我们确定了作者引用最多的学科（入侵生态学，生物控制，其他控制，其他生态学和非生态学）和出版格式（例如期刊和书籍）。我们发现1）入侵生态学家主要引用其他入侵生态学研究；2）生物防治研究人员引用了生物防治和入侵生态学研究；3）两个学科都主要引用同行评审的期刊文章；4）在主要入侵生态学和生物防治文献中引用的前20种期刊中有65-70％重叠。尽管我们发现了一些交叉通信，但目前它大多是单向通信，入侵生态学以此来告知生物防治。我们确定并讨论了三个领域：1）控制引进物种成败的生态原理，2）入侵过程，