The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants

by Charles S. Elton

Book Overview

Much as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was a call to action against the pesticides that were devastating bird populations, Charles S. Elton's classic The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants sounded an early warning about an environmental catastrophe that has become all too familiar today--the invasion of nonnative species. From kudzu to zebra mussels to Asian long-horned beetles, nonnative species are colonizing new habitats around...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226206386
• ISBN13: 9780226206387
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"