Screen LibraryThe aliens among us : how invasive species are transforming the planet--and ourselves /
A thoughtful, accessible look at the rapidly growing issue of invasive plants, animals, and microbes around the globe with a focus on the scientific issues and ecological, health, and other challenges. From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burge...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A thoughtful, accessible look at the rapidly growing issue of invasive plants, animals, and microbes around the globe with a focus on the scientific issues and ecological, health, and other challenges. From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads readers on adventures physical and philosophical as he explores how and why invasive species are hijacking ecosystems around the globe. Weaving science, travel, history, and humor with diverse examples to cha |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 367 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-353) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300208900 0300208901 |
| Index Number: | QH353 |
| CLC: | Q16-05 |
| Call Number: | Q16-05/A628 |
| Contents: | Big trouble : a plague of ... giant snakes? -- A postcard from Florida : introducing alien invasive species -- The python's tale : establishment, spread, and detection -- Invasional meltdown : impacts of alien invasive species -- The Sisyphus files : eradication and control -- Sunrise on Homogena : a new planetary paradigm. |