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Nature out of place : biological invasions in the global age /
Annotation "Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions in changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, tightly integrated webs of native species to loose assemblages of stressed native species and aggressive invaders." &quo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From endemic to generic: feral pigs and the destruction of Hawaii's native forests
- Private worlds: the relationship between ecological isolation and biodiversity
- The great mixers: transportation technology and the spread of invasive species
- Refuge for the mussels: biotic integrity and zebra mussel invasion in the Ohio River Basin
- Rolling the ecological dice: invasiveness, invasibility, and the ecological consequences of invasion
- Fading forests: invasive pests and forest destruction in eastern North America
- Guilty until proven innocent: preventing nonnative species invasions
- After all the sheep are gone: the recovery of Santa Cruz Island after 140 years of grazing
- Holding the line: chemical and mechanical control of nonnative species invasions
- Fighting the green wildfire: integrated management of leafy spurge on the Great Plains
- The search for balance: using biological control to restore invaded natural areas
- The gift of meaning: public involvement in ecological restoration in Madison, Wisconsin
- Bringing it home: increasing public awareness of alien species impacts in Hawaii
- Going local: personal actions for a native planet.