Guidelines for addressing invasive species in protected areas

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas: Patterns, Problems and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 487-506

  Genovesi, Piero ^a,b   Monaco, Andrea ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group   (Italy)

^c Regional Parks Agency Lazio Region   (Italy)

Author keywords

Awareness raising; Information exchange; Invasive alien species; Management; Prevention

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013116947     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_22     Document Type: Chapter

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