Life out of bounds : bioinvasion in a borderless world
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Life out of bounds : bioinvasion in a borderless world
（The Worldwatch environmental alert series）
Earthscan, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-278) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Conservation biologists are raising the alarm about a global threat to biodiversity that is unfolding largely unnoticed - bioinvasion, the spread of alien, "exotic" organisms. There has been little public recognition of the dangers posed by these invading species, but exotic species are injuring our biological wealth on virtually every level - from the genetic (when exotics interbreed with native species) to the wholesale transformation of landscapes. This text shows that this "biological pollution" is now beginning to corrode the world's economies and outlines the social and economic implications if these invasions are allowed to continue unchecked.
Table of Contents
- Evolution in reverse
- the geography of invasion
- the fields
- the forests
- the waters
- islands
- the culture of invasion
- colonists
- accidents
- economic invasions
- remedies
- toward an ecologically literate society.
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