‘native’ and ‘alien’ - a biogeographical perspective

Author
Preston Christopher D.
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Abstract

The concepts of native and alien species are essential to biogeography. They are fundamental to our understanding of why organisms grow where they do. Many species are easy to allocate to one or other category (eg, New World species in the Old World), although there are also of course doubtful cases. The biogeographical use of the terms as factual descriptions of modes of origin should be distinguished from their use in evaluating species for conservation purposes.

Year of Publication
2009
Journal
Progress in Human Geography
Volume
33
Issue
5
Number of Pages
702-711
Date Published
10/01/2009
ISBN Number
0309-1325, 1477-0288
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Short Title
Prog Hum Geogr
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