Invasive species : vectors and management strategies / edited by Gregory M. Ruiz and James T. Carlton.
Publication details: Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003.Description: xiii, 517 pages: illustrations, maps; 23 cmISBN:- 9781559639033
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Includes index. Ruiz, G. M., & Carlton, J. T. (Eds.). (2003). Invasive species: Vectors and management strategies. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Part I: Invasion causes, routes, and vectors: spatial and temporal patterns in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems -- Global plant dispersal, naturalization, and invasion: pathways, modes and circumstances -- Invasion pathways of terrestrial plant-inhabiting fungi -- Exotic insects and their pathways for invasion -- Invasion pathways for terrestrial vertebrates -- Pathways of introduction of nonindigenous land and freshwater snail and slugs -- Freshwater aquatic vertebrate introduction in the United States: patterns and pathways -- In ships or on ships? mechanisms of transfer and invasion for nonnative species to the coasts of North America -- Pathways of biological invasions of marine plants -- Spatial and temporal analysis of transoceanic shipping vectors to the great lakes -- Part II: Invasion management and policy -- An Australian perspective on the management of pathways for invasive species -- Invasive species management in New Zealand -- Vectors and pathways of biological invasions in South Africa - past, present, and future -- Mitigating introduction of invasive plant pests in the United States -- Environmental diplomacy and the global movement of invasive alien species: a U.S. perspective -- Biosecurity and the role risk assessment -- Generic nonindigenous aquatic organisms risk analysis review process -- Pathways-based risk assessment of exotic species invasions -- Part III: Conclusion -- Invasion vectors: a conceptual framework for management
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