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Cargando... Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasionpor Alan Burdick
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Really, really boring. ( ) I really liked the premise of the book ... that plants and animals, moved into new ecological surroundings, can have profound impacts on their new homes. It was also interesting to realize that it's hard to define a "native" species of plant or animal; many of the things we would today consider native are truly transplants from another place in another time. I found the book hard to get through at times, though, and felt that it dragged. A fascinating tale of brown tree snakes, zebra mussels, alien shrubs and Hawaiian birds. It does leave one with the thought that eventually, plant and animal life will become homogenous across the continents, and local flora and fauna will either be squeezed out or learn to migrate. Still, there's a ray of optimism shining through this book as seen through the eyes of the scientists who battle alien invaders to their local ecosystems. As an added bonus, who knew scientists could be so cool? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them to be. Bird-eating snakes hitchhike to Hawaii in the landing gear of airliners; pernicious European zebra mussels, riding in ships' ballast water, disrupt aquatic ecosystems across the United States; feral camels plague Australia, as do poisonous foreign toads; giant Indonesian pythons lurk beneath homes in suburban Miami. As alien species jump from place to place and increasingly crowd native and endangered species out of existence, biologists speak fearfully of "the homogenization of the world." The fastest-growing threat to biological diversity, they contend, may be nature itself." "Out of Eden is a personal journey through this strange and shifting landscape. Alan Burdick routs the front lines of ecological invasion: in Hawaii, Tasmania, Guam, San Francisco; in lush rain forests, through underground lava tubes, aboard an Alaska-bound oil tanker, inside a spacecraft-assembly facility at NASA. He follows world-class scientists - invasion biologists, "mix-o-ecologist" - and a global cast of alien species to ask: What exactly is nature? What in natural?"--BOOK JACKET. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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