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Alien Plants (Hardcover)
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Alien Plants (Hardcover)
Series: Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 129
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The word 'aliens' can be used in many ways, to invoke fear, dislike
and fascination. For biologists it is used to indicate organisms
that have been introduced by people to new territories. In the
British Isles alien plants are common, conspicuous, pestiferous,
beautiful, edible - and can be both useful and harmful. Over the
last fifty years, the study of alien plants has progressed from an
eccentric hobby, enabling amateur botanists to increase the total
of wild plants that they could record, to the full-blown sciences
of invasion ecology and alien genetics. Alien species no longer
present an optional extra, but must be accepted as an integral part
of mainstream botanical investigation. The amount and breadth of
data that has been accumulated on alien plants in the British Isles
is exceptional. The subject has become familiar both to naturalists
and the general public, due to such diverse topics as damage to the
environment by Japanese Knotweed and New Zealand Pigmyweed, the
attraction of bees and butterflies to cities by such plants as
Buddleja, the court cases involving Leylandii hedges, the threats
to the purity of our native Bluebell by the mass planting of its
Spanish relative, and the cultivation of new sorts of Christmas
tree. In this important addition to the New Naturalist series,
Stace and Crawley provide a comprehensive overview of the many
plants that have become an integral part of the British wild flora
and a unique insight into why alien plants are so important.
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