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Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting
environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic
damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997,
a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and
CABI developed the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) with
the explicit objective of providing new tools for understanding and
coping with invasive alien species.
Invasive Alien Species is the final report of GISP's first phase
of operation, 1997-2000, in which authorities from more than thirty
countries worked to examine invasions as a worldwide environmental
hazard. The book brings together the world's leading scientists and
researchers involved with invasive alien species to offer a
comprehensive summary and synthesis of the current state of
knowledge on the subject.
Invasive alien species represent a critical threat to natural
ecosystems and native biodiversity, as well as to human economic
vitality and health. The knowledge gained to date in understanding
and combating invasive alien species can form a useful basis on
which to build strategies for controlling or minimizing the effects
in the future. Invasive Alien Species is an essential reference for
the international community of investigators concerned with
biological invasions.
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