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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Pimentel, David, 1925-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boca Raton : CRC Press, ©2011.
Edición:2nd ed.
Temas:
Biological invasions > Economic aspects.
Biological invasions > Environmental aspects.
Invasions biologiques > Aspect économique.
Invasions biologiques > Aspect de l'environnement.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Biological invasions > Economic aspects
Invasion > Biologie
Pflanzen
Tiere
Mikroorganismus
Umweltschaden
Kosten
Neophyten > Botanik
Verbreitung
Neozoen
Umweltschutz
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Nonnative species in the world / David Pimentel
  • Sect. I. Australia
  • The impacts of alien plants in Australia / Richard H. Groves
  • Environmental and economic costs of invertebrate invasions in Australia / Deon Canyon, Ian Naumann, Rick Speare, and Ken Winkel
  • Sect. II. Brazil
  • Invasive vertebrates in Brazil / Carlos Frederico D. Rocha, Helena Godoy Bergallo, and Rosana Mazzoni
  • Sect. III. British Isles
  • Alien plants in Britain / Mark Williamson
  • Economic, environmental, and social dimensions of alien vertebrate species in Britain / Piran C.L. White, Adriana E.S. Ford-Thompson, Carolyn J. Snell, and Stephen Harris
  • Sect. IV. Europe
  • Impacts of alien vertebrates in Europe / Susan M. Shirley and Salit Kark
  • Invasive patterns of alien terrestrial invertebrates in Europe / Alain Roques
  • Invasive plant pathogens in Europe / Ivan Sache, Anne-Sophie Roy, Frédéric Suffert, and Marie-Laure Desprez-Loustau
  • Sect. V. India
  • Invasive plants in the Indian subcontinent / Daizy R. Batish, R.K. Kohli, and H.P. Singh
  • Invasive invertebrates in India: economic implications / T.N. Ananthakrishman
  • Sect. VI. New Zealand
  • Economic impacts of weeds in New Zealand: some examples / Peter A. Williams and Susan M. Timmins
  • Ecological and economic costs of alien vertebrates in New Zealand / M.N. Clout
  • Sect. VII. South Africa
  • The economic consequences of the environmental impacts of alien plant invasions in South Africa / D.C. Le Maitre, W.J. de Lange, D.M. Richardson, R.M. Wise, and B.W. van Wilgen
  • Invasive vertebrates of South Africa / Berndt J. van Rensburg, Olaf L.F. Weyl, Sarah J. Davies, Nicola J. van Wilgen, Dian Spear, Christian T. Chimimba, and Faansie Peacock
  • Sect. VIII. United States
  • Rodents and other vertebrate invaders in the United States / Michael W. Fall, Michael L. Avery, Tyler A. Campbell, Peter J. Egan, Richard M. Engeman, David Pimentel, William C. Pitt, Stephanie A. Shwiff, and Gary W. Witmer
  • Environmental and economic costs associated with alien invasive species in the United States / David Pimentel.

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