Invaded : the biological invasion of South Africa /
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Johannesburg :
Wits University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Shrinking planet Earth: travel and conquest on the road to globalisation
- A little Europe in the Cape: the Cape floral kingdom and its plant invaders (mostly silky hakea, cluster pine and long-leaved wattle)
- Stealing South Africa's precious water: the threat of woody tree invaders (wattle, pine, eucalyptus, mesquite and lantana)
- Troublemakers in the big blue: mussels, oysters and crabs
- Armies from the new world: Argentine (sugar) ant
- Winged incursions: common starlings, common mynahs, house sparrows, house crows, feral pigeons, the mallard duck and the spread of indigenous species
- The devil weed and the dinosaur doppelgänger: triffid weed and its impact on the Nile crocodile
- Flowers of the waysides and wastelands: road and railway verges and power-line servitudes
- Glades of grass: perennial and annual grass invaders
- The invisible sounder: Eurasian wild pigs
- The sweet-toothed predator in the winelands: the European or yellow jacket wasp
- The 'Capensis' calamity: Cape and African honeybees and the painted reed frog
- Our polluted waterways: predatory fish (trout, bass and sharptooth catfish) and invasive plants (hydrilla and water hyacinth)
- A tale of cats and mice: Marion, Prince Edward and Gough Islands
- Blueprint of a well-nourished world: genetically modified crops and global food security
- Staging a defence: strategies to contain invasion
- A biological diaspora: South Africa's weedy exports.