The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

n this book I have tried to bring together ideas from three different Istreams of thought with which I have been closely concerned during the last thirty years or so. The first is faunal history, usually regarded as a purely academic subject, but to some of whose events can be traced a number of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elton, C. S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1958, 1958
Edition:1st ed. 1958
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Invaders
  • 2. Wallace’s Realms: The Archipelago of Continents
  • 3. The Invasion of Continents
  • 4. The Fate of Remote Islands
  • 5. Changes in the Sea
  • 6. The Balance between Populations
  • 7. New Food-Chains for Old
  • 8. The Reasons for Conservation
  • 9. The Conservation of Variety
  • References