Plant Invaders : The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

Cronk, Quentin C. B.; Fuller, Janice L.

ISBN 10: 0412483807 / ISBN 13: 9780412483806

Published by Springer, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plant Invaders : The Threat to Natural Ecosystems
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412483807
• ISBN 13: 9780412483806
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In a new series in plant conservation sponsored by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), this book is a practical guide to a subject of increasing concern to the conservation biologist. As with each of the books in the series, this book aims to give an authoritative guide to the subject in a clear, jargon-free style. It should therefore not only be of interest to the academic biologist interested in the phenomenon of invasion, but also to government and non-governmental personnel involved in the decision-making process needed as a result of the problems encountered with invasive species. Case-studies highlight specific problems from a wide range of countries, including North America, South and Central America, Africa, Australasia, South and South East Asia, Europe, the Pacific and Atlantic Islands and Indonesia. The book contains an appendix with a list of invasive species and their countries of origin. A bibliography contains reference to all cited articles and books. This book should be of interest to conservation biologists, economic botanists, ethnobotanists, plant ecologists, agriculturalists, those interested in development problems, geographers, environmental scientists, ecotourists and "green" lay people.

Review

[This book] is a practical guide including case-studies and an appendix with a list of invasive species and their countries of origin
Bookseller
I rather enjoyed this book ... at times I found myself fully immersed in a science fiction world of immortal propagules, uncontested vigour and unwitting dispersal agents spreading the plague to the four corners - I shall never look at the mud on my boots in quite the same light again.
Annals of Botany
We know of no other publication that provides such a broad coverage of these topics ... We strongly recommend it ...
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
The book contains an invaluable list of invasive species with their countries of origin and regions of introduction.Krypto News
Plant Invaders is a conservation manual produced as part of the 'People and Plants' programme.Plant Talk
The authors have drawn on and developed the results of ICSU/SCOPE 'Ecology of Biological Invasions' project of the mid-1980s.Plant Conservation News
...a good overview of the types of plants found to be invasive...
British Ecological Society Bulletin