E-commerce and Caulerpa: Unregulated dispersal of invasive species

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 75-79

  Walters, Linda J ^a   Brown, Katherine R ^a   Stam, Wytze T ^b   Olsen, Jeanine L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; E-COMMERCE; GREEN ALGA; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; CAULERPA; CAULERPA TAXIFOLIA;

EID: 33645297149     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)004[0075:EACUDO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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