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Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands - From the Molecular to the Landscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands - From the Molecular to the Landscape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
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This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and
their behavior in oceanic islands. How can we define invasive
species? What is their history? How did they come to dominate and
transform ecosystems? These are relevant questions when trying to
understand the behavior of invasive species-primarily in fragile
ecosystems such as islands-and to understand the biological,
ecological, social and economic impacts of invasions. We chose the
Galapagos Islands, a place well-known to be unique in the study of
evolution, as a laboratory to analyze the interactions between
invasive and endemic species, to understand the makeup of the
ecosystems emerging after invasions have occurred, to describe the
relationships of invasives with the people that live in these
islands, and to try to develop comprehensive analyses on this topic
from multi-scalar and multi-disciplinary points of view. For a long
time, the discussion has been about how proper management of the
species could achieve two main goals: the eradication of the
species to recover affected ecosystems and the conservation of
endemic species. The discussion has taken on other nuances,
including the suggestion that an invasive species, when it is
already adapted to an ecosystem, forms an integral part of it, and
thus eradication would in itself go against conservation. On the
other hand, some invasive species are not only part of the
biological compound of the island ecosystems, but they also form
part of the social and cultural history of the inhabited islands.
Some of these identified by the local inhabitants are species of
real or potential economic value.
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