Alien species in North America and Hawaii : impacts on natural ecosystems /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, George W., 1935-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The threat of exotics : biotic pollution
  • North American invaders : the invited and uninvited
  • A brief history of invasions : human history - an exotic's perspective
  • The Eastern seaboard : exotics discover America
  • West coast bays and estuaries : swamping the natives
  • Northern temperate lakes : chaos along the food chain
  • Western rivers and streams : pollution that won't wash away
  • Eastern forests : the dark side of forest biodiversity
  • Florida and the gulf lowlands : hostile ecosystem takeovers
  • Plains and intermontane grasslands : exotics at home on the range
  • Western floodplains : disturbing the disturbance regime
  • The Pacific states : Mediterranean mixing pot
  • Hawaiian Islands : exotics in the Islands of Eden
  • Exotic game and fish : addiction to game and fish introduction
  • Homegrown exotics : natives out of place
  • Human domesticates and associates : our best friends and closest associates
  • Exotics and community structure : biodiversity bombs
  • Exotics and ecosystem impacts : changing the way nature works
  • Exotics and evolution : assimilation or conquest
  • Living with exotics : the ecological economics of exotics
  • Exotics and public policy : are all exotics undesirable?