Invaded
Subtitle: the biological invasion of South Africa
By: Leonie Joubert ; photography by Rodger Bosch.
Contributors: Bosch, Rodger.
Publisher: Wits University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Johannesburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781868144785
Subjects: Biological invasions -- South Africa; Invasive plants -- South Africa; Marine biological invasions -- South Africa; Introduced organisms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Shrinking planet Earth: travel and conquest on the road to globalisation; title: A little Europe in the Cape: the Cape floral kingdom and its plant invaders (mostly silky hakea, cluster pine and long-leaved wattle); title: Stealing South Africa's precious water: the threat of woody tree invaders (wattle, pine, eucalyptus, mesquite and lantana); title: Troublemakers in the big blue: mussels, oysters and crabs; title: Armies from the new world: Argentine (sugar) ant; title: Winged incursions: common starlings, common mynahs, house sparrows, house crows, feral pigeons, the mallard duck and the spread of indigenous species; title: The devil weed and the dinosaur doppelgänger: triffid weed and its impact on the Nile crocodile; title: Flowers of the waysides and wastelands: road and railway verges and power-line servitudes; title: Glades of grass: perennial and annual grass invaders; title: The invisible sounder: Eurasian wild pigs; title: The sweet-toothed predator in the winelands: the European or yellow jacket wasp; title: The 'Capensis' calamity: Cape and African honeybees and the painted reed frog; title: Our polluted waterways: predatory fish (trout, bass and sharptooth catfish) and invasive plants (hydrilla and water hyacinth); title: A tale of cats and mice: Marion, Prince Edward and Gough Islands; title: Blueprint of a well-nourished world: genetically modified crops and global food security; title: Staging a defence: strategies to contain invasion; title: A biological diaspora: South Africa's weedy exports.