This study, seeks to evaluate the relationship between the classification of a species as invasive and the rhetorical framework used by biologists/ecologists in their academic abstracts. The methods for this study include: a classification of language used in abstracts from the Web of Science database, a statistical analysis of the categories from the analysis , and a brief review of three case examples. Invasive species includes those organisms that have an impact on human health, the environment, or the economy. The author posits that economic relationships will be the most commonly used discourse to frame nonnative species research, based on a social constructionist framework and grounded theory analysis of co ntemporary discourse . While a statistical analysis of the discourse used to describe invasive species in academic abstracts did not reveal any significant results, organisms classified as invasive have an association with an economic impact, indicated by the case examples--Edited abstract.
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