Plant Invaders: The Threat to Natural Ecosystems

ISBN-13: 9780412483806 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 241 str.

Quentin C. B. Cronk

Opis

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.

Recenzje

[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

Spis treści

The nature of plant invasion. How invasion occurs. Action against invasive plants. Case studies of some important invasive species. Representative invasive species. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.