Failure of the Lacey Act to protect US ecosystems against animal invasions

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 353-359

  Fowler, Andrea J ^a   Lodge, David M ^a   Hsia, Jennifer F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXTINCTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34548513501     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2007)5[353:FOTLAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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