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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Naturalized reptiles and amphibians of the world
  title info: title
  name:
    name part: Lever, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Christopher Lever
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2003
    date issued: 9999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: und
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 318 p.
    extent: ill.
    extent: 26 cm
  abstract: This book describes how the various alien reptiles and amphibians now living in the wild throughout the world were first introduced, how they subsequently became naturalized, their present distribution and status in those countries to which they were introduced, and their ecological and socio-economic impact on the native biota and local economies. Many species have had a more or less neutral impact, being neither beneficial nor harmful. However, several have had a positive ecological or socio-economic impact, while some such as the cane toad, have had an extremely destructive effect.The criteria for inclusion of a species are that it should have been imported from its natural range to a new country by human agency--either accidentally or deliberately--and that it should currently be established in the wild in self-maintaining and self-perpetuating populations unsupported by and independent of mankind
  note: Christopher Lever
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-306) and index
  subject:
    topic: Introduced reptiles; Introduced amphibians
  classification: 597.916
  classification: CHR313
  identifier: 198507712
  record info:
    record creation date: 210423
    record identifier: TVU_13238