Nonindigenous Freshwater Organisms in North America
Subtitle: Vectors of Introduction, Biology, and Impact
Publisher: Lewis Publishers
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780849341045
Subjects: Animal ecology; Fishes (ichthyology); Freshwater biology, limnology; Molluscs; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Biology - Marine Biology; Freshwater Ecology; Introduced organisms; Nonindigenous aquatic pests; North America
Description: "Alien species invade aquatic ecosystems by both intentional and accidental means. Non-indigenous Freshwater Organisms focuses on this infringement into North American aquatic ecosystems. The 30 chapters measure the devastating ecological, and sometimes economic, impacts caused by the encroachment of species such as the zebra mussel and the American bullfrog."--BOOK JACKET.