Out of Eden An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Name: Out of Eden An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
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ISBN: 9780374530433

ISBN-10: 0374530432

ISBN-13: 9780374530433

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alan Burdick

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Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships’ ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels and poisonous foreign toads plague Australia; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of “the homogenization of the world.” Never mind bulldozers and pesticides: the…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English