Alien invasion : America's battle with non-native animals and plants / Robert Devine.
Alien invasion : America's battle with non-native animals and plants / Robert Devine.
Alien invasion : America's battle with non-native animals and plants / Robert Devine.
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Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1998.
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T0387237
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English
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Physical content
viii, 280 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, c1998.
Place of Publication
District of Columbia
Date Published
c1998.
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Alien Invasion combines state-of-the-art enviromental science with vivid personal stories of the impact of exotics, from a firefighter's gripping tale of a fatal cheatgrass blaze to an eerie boat ride through an Everglades grove where all other life has been choked out by a foreign tree.
Devine takes readers into California's Imperial Valley, where whiteflies have literally changed a community's life, and he joins a group attempting to restock the Colorado River with endangered fish crowded out by predatory intruders. He explores the politics of environmental management - a world of strange bedfellows, where animal activists and hu...
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Alien invasion : America's battle with non-native animals and plants / Robert Devine.
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Includes index.
Transferred from N577.18/1.
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c1998.
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T0387237
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74VM4mNxPGvO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4mNxPGvO
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ISBN
0792273729
9780792273721
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577.18
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991001347789702626
