Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions*

Biological Invasions: Economic and Environmental Costs of Alien Plant, Animal, and Microbe Species

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 307-329

  Pimentel, David ^a   McNair, S ^b   Janecka, J ^c   Wightman, J ^b   Simmonds, C ^b   O'Connell C ^b   Wong, E ^c   Russel, L ^b   Zern, J ^c   Aquino, T ^c   Tsomondo, T ^c  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420041668-29     Document Type: Chapter

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