Cargando…

Invasive alien species : a new synthesis /

Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and CABI developed the Global Invasive Specie...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Otros Autores: Mooney, Harold A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2005.
Colección:SCOPE report ; 63.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Invasive alien species : the nature of the problem / Harold A. Mooney
  • The economics of biological invasions / Charles Perrings, Silvana Dalmazzone, and Mark Williamson
  • Vector science and integrated vector management in bioinvasion ecology : conceptual frameworks / James T. Carlton and Gregory M. Ruiz
  • The ISSG Global Invasive Species Database and other aspects of an early warning system / Maj de Poorter [and others]
  • Characterizing ecological risks of introductions and invasions / David A. Andow
  • Ecology of invasive plants : state of the art / Marcel Rejmánek [and others]
  • Facilitation and synergistic interactions between introduced aquatic species / Anthony Ricciardi
  • Assessing biotic invasions in time and space : the second imperative / Richard N. Mack
  • Best practices for the prevention and management of invasive alien species / Rüdiger Wittenberg and Matthew J.W. Cock
  • Legal and institutional frameworks for invasive alien species / Clare Shine, Nattley Williams, and Françoise Burhenne-Guilmin
  • Human dimensions of invasive alien species / Jeffrey A. McNeely
  • Invasive species in a changing world : the interactions between global change and invasives / Richard J. Hobbs and Harold A. Mooney
  • A global strategy on invasive alien species : synthesis and ten strategic elements / Jeffrey A. McNeely [and others].