01249nam a2200205Ia 4500 CTU_109084 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 577.18 B315 Baskin, Yvonne A plague of rats and rubbervines : The growing threat of species invasions Yvonne Baskin Washington, D.C. Island Press 2002 The human love of novelty and desire to make one place look like another, coupled with massive increases in global trade and transport, are creating a growing economic and ecological threat. The same forces that are rapidly "McDonaldizing" the world's diverse cultures are also driving us toward an era of monotonous, weedy, and uniformly impoverished landscapes. Unique plant and animal communities are slowly succumbing to the world's "rats and rubbervines" -- animals like zebra mussels and feral pigs, and plants like kudzu and water hyacinth -- that, once moved into new territory, can disrupt human enterprise and well-being as well as native habitats and biodiversity. Biological invasion,Nature conservation Minh Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ