Alien species in North America and Hawaii : impacts on natural ecosystems /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
[1999]
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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?