Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions
Pimentel, David.
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McNair, S.
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Janecka, J.
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Wightman, J.
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Simmonds, C.
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O'Connel, C.
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Wong, E.
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Russel, L.
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Zern, J.
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Aquino, T.
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Tsomondo, T.
2000
Quantifying the environmental damage and loss of biodiversity due to alien species invasions worldwide is complicated by the fact that only some 1.5 million of the estimated 10 million species on earth have been identified and described. The total nu