Pandora's garden : kudzu, cockroaches, and other misfits of ecology /

"Pandora's Garden profiles invasive or unwanted species in the natural world and examines how our treatment of these creatures sometimes parallels in surprising ways how we treat each other. Part essay, part nature writing, part narrative nonfiction, the chapters in Pandora's Garden a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peters, Clinton Crockett (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Colección:Crux (Athens, Ga.)
Temas:
Introduced organisms.
Introduced organisms > Control.
Weeds.
Weeds > Control.
Endemic animals.
Endemic plants.
Human-animal relationships.
Human-plant relationships.
Espèces introduites.
Espèces introduites > Lutte contre.
Mauvaises herbes > Lutte contre.
Animaux endémiques.
Plantes endémiques.
Relations homme-animal.
Relations homme-plante.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Seagulled
  • The miracle vine
  • Rabbits and convicts
  • Beasts on the street
  • Wildlife of unknown status
  • The Texas snow monkeys
  • Uncle shark
  • The Limbic System roundup
  • Becoming mascot
  • Water bugs: a story of absolution
  • A passage of birds
  • The color of tarsiers
  • The carp experience
  • Recycle prairie dogs
  • Evolving the monster: a history of Godzilla
  • The great story of the stinking cedar in the Garden of Eden
  • Epilogue: the genealogy of extinction.

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