Strangers in Paradise
Subtitle: Impact And Management Of Nonindigenous Species In Florida
Contributors: Edward O. Wilson (Foreword); Brian Butterfield (Contributor); James Carlton (Contributor); Deborah Jenson (Contributor); Randy Westbrooks (Contributor); David Girardin (Contributor); Frances James (Contributor); Mary Ruckelshaus (Contributor); Walter Tschinkel (Contributor); Jeffrey Schardt (Contributor); H. Hugh Boyter (Contributor); James Cox (Contributor); Thomas Quinn (Contributor); Mark Glisson (Contributor); William Haller (Contributor); Doria Gordon (Contributor); Daniel Simberloff (Editor); Donald C. Schmitz (Editor); Tom C. Brown (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: April 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9781559634298
Subjects: Biology, Life Sciences; Environmental & ecological science; Life Sciences - Ecology; Environmental Science; Ecology; Nature/Ecology; Science; Environmental Studies; Florida; Exotic plants; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Science / Zoology; Nonindigenous pests; Control; Exotic animals
First sentence: Highlighted by a project of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions (Mooney and Drake 1986; Drake et al. 1989), invasion biology has burgeoned in the last decade into a main focus of conservation biology and ecology.