Invasive exotic species in the Sonoran region /

Biological invasions

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Tellman, Barbara
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, [2002]
Series:Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum studies in natural history.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Deep history of immigration in the Sonoran Desert region
  • Human introduction of exotic species in the Sonoran region
  • Exotic plant species in the western United States : putting the Sonorian Floristic Province into perspective
  • Natural barriers to plant naturalizations and invasions in the Sonoran Desert
  • Invasive exotic plants in the Sonoran Desert
  • Invasive plants : their occurrence and possible impact on the Central Gulf Coast of Sonora and the Midriff Islands in the Sea of Cortʹes
  • Invasive vertebrates on Islands of the Sea of Cortʹes
  • Mexican grasslands, thornscrub, and the transformation of the Sonoran Desert by invasive exotic bufflegrass
  • Exotic species in grasslands
  • Alien annual grasses and their relationships to fire and biotic change in Sonoran desertscrub
  • Foreign visitors in riparian corridors of the American Southwest : is xenophytophobia justified?
  • Widespread effects of introduced species on reptiles and amphibians in the Sonoran Desert region
  • The biodiversity and distribution of exotic vascular plants and animals in the Grand Canyon region
  • Efforts of the USDA's Plant Protection and Quarantine program to exclude Foreign Pest series
  • Biological control of invasive exotic plant species : protocol, history, and safeguards
  • Invasive species and fence lines
  • Management of buffelgrass on Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
  • The range of control methods
  • - Overview and parting shots