Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

Name: Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
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ISBN: 9780226206387

ISBN-10: 0226206386

ISBN-13: 9780226206387

Edition: 2000

Authors: Charles S. Elton

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Much as Rachel Carson's Silent Springwas a call to action against the pesticides that were devastating bird populations, Charles S. Elton's classic The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plantssounded an early warning about an environmental catastrophe that has become all too familiar today—the invasion of nonnative species. From kudzu to zebra mussels to Asian long-horned beetles, nonnative species are colonizing new habitats around the world at an alarming rate thanks to accidental and intentional human intervention. One of the leading causes of extinctions of native animals and plants, invasive species also wreak severe economic havoc, causing $79 billion worth of damage in the United…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



The Invaders



Wallace's Realms: The Archipelago of Continents



The Invasion of Continents



The Fate of Remote Islands



Changes in the Sea



The Balance Between Populations



New Food-Chains for Old



The Reasons for Conservation



The Conservation of Variety


References


Index