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Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin

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  1. F. Castri
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  2. A. J. Hansen
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  3. M. Debussche
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Part of the book series: Monographiae Biologicae (MOBI, volume 65)

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Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Plant invasions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Plant invasions in Central Europe: historical and ecological aspects

      • Jan Kornaś
      Pages 19-36

    3. History of the impact of man on the distribution of plant species

      • K. V. Sykora
      Pages 37-50

    4. Recent plant invasions in the Circum-Mediterranean region

      • P. Quezel, M. Barbero, G. Bonin, R. Loisel
      Pages 51-60

    5. The invading weeds within the Western Mediterranean Basin

      • J. L. Guillerm, E. Le Floc’h, J. Maillet, C. Boulet
      Pages 61-84

    6. Widespread adventive plants in Catalonia

      • Teresa Casasayas Fornell
      Pages 85-104

    7. History and patterns of plant invasion in Northern Africa

      • E. Le Floc’h, H. N. Le Houerou, J. Mathez
      Pages 105-133

    8. Invasions of adventive plants in Israel

      • Amots Dafni, David Heller
      Pages 135-160

    9. Man and vegetation in the Mediterranean area during the last 20,000 years

      • Jean-Louis Vernet
      Pages 161-168

    10. Plant invasions in Southern Europe from the Paleoecological point of view

      • A. Pons, M. Couteaux, J. L. De Beaulieu, M. Reille
      Pages 169-177

    11. Mediterranean weeds: exchanges of invasive plants between the five Mediterranean regions of the world

      • Marilyn D. Fox
      Pages 179-200
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In view of the massive change in the area of distribution of many world biota across classical biogeographical realms, and of the drastic restructuring of the biotic components of numerous ecosystems, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) decided at its general Assembly in Ottawa, Canada, in 1982 to launch a project on the 'Ecology of Biological Invasions'. Several regional meetings were subsequently organized within the framework of SCOPE, in order to single out the peculiarities of the invasions that took place in each region, the behaviour of their invasive species and the invasibility of their ecosystems. Most noteworthy among such workshops were one in Australia in August 1984, one concerning North America and Hawaii in October 1984, and one dealing with southern Africa in November 1985. A leitmotiv of these workshops was that most of the invasive species to those regions were emanating from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin, inadvertently or intentionally introduced by man. It was therefore considered as a timely endeavour to organize the next regional meeting in relation to this region. The workshop on 'Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin' was held in Montpellier, France, 21 to 23 May 1986, thanks to the financial support of SCOPE and of the A.W. Mellon Foundation, and the logistic facilities of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N .R.S.).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biological Invasions in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin

  • Editors: F. Castri, A. J. Hansen, M. Debussche

  • Series Title: Monographiae Biologicae

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1876-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0411-1Published: 31 July 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7337-0Published: 11 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-1876-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0077-0639

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1729

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 463

  • Topics: Plant Ecology, Ecology, Nature Conservation

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