Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Queiroz, Ana Isabel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Pooley, Simon (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Environmental History, 8
• Θέματα: Conservation biology.; Ecology .; World history.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Nature conservation.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Nature Conservation.

Bioinvasions is a current top research subject for natural sciences, social sciences and humanities and a major concern for conservationists, land managers and planners. In the last decades, new findings, perspectives and practices have revealed the multifaceted challenges of preventing new introduc...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction; Ana Isabel Queiroz, Simon Pooley
• 1. Mare Nostrum, Mare quod invaditur - the history of bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea; Bella S. Galil et al
• 2. The apparently relentless spread of the major stomatopod and decapod alien species in the Mediterranean basin; Chiara Manfrin et al
• 3. Scourge in the Mediterranean. The Argentine ant invasion and the phytosanitary policies imposed in the 1920s; Ana Isabel Queiroz
• 4. Balearic Islands herpetological history: when aliens conquered these islands and what to do next; Iolanda Silva-Rocha et al
• 5. The Xenopus laevis invasion in Portugal: an improbable connection of science, Mediterranean climate and river neglect; Mónica Sousa et al
• 6. Ecologically benign invasions: The invasion and adaptation of common waxbills (Estrilda astrild) in Iberia; Gonçalo C. Cardoso, Luís Reino
• 7. Long term mammal introductions in Ionian and Aegeus Islands; Marco Massetti
• 8. Spartina invasors in Mediterranean marshes: past, present and future; Bernardo Duarte et al
• 9. The Akrotiri peninsula and its forest: Impacts and perceptions of a colonial legacy; J.M. Peyton et al
• 10. The entangled history of humans and introduced plants on South Africa's Cape Peninsula; Simon Pooley
• Indexes.  .