Plant Invasions in Protected Areas Patterns, Problems and Challenges

This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas. It provides insights into advances in invasion ecology emanating from work in protected areas, and the link to locally relevant management suppo

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Llewellyn C. Foxcroft Petr Pyšek David M. Richardson Piero Genovesi Editors

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas Patterns, Problems and Challenges

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas

Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology

Volume 7

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Llewellyn C. Foxcroft • Petr Pysˇek • David M. Richardson • Piero Genovesi Editors

Plant Invasions in Protected Areas Patterns, Problems and Challenges

Editors Llewellyn C. Foxcroft South African National Parks Centre for Invasion Biology Conservation Services Skukuza, South Africa

Petr Pysˇek Department of Invasion Ecology Institute of Botany Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Pru˚honice, Czech Republic

David M. Richardson Department of Botany and Zoology Centre for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa

Piero Genovesi ISPRA – Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, and Chair IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group Rome, Italy

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