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The Aliens Among Us

How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet - and Ourselves

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From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads listeners on adventures physical and philosophical as he explores how and why invasive species are hijacking ecosystems around the globe.

Weaving science, travel, history, and humor with diverse examples to chart and describe the phases of species invasion and human response, Anthony introduces field researchers and managers who seek to understand the biological, social, and economic aspects of this complex issue, and whose work collectively suggests the emergence of a global shadow economy centered on invasives.

With tales of pythons in the Everglades, Asian carp and lamprey in the Great Lakes, Japanese knotweed seemingly everywhere, and the invasive organisms we don't see - pathogens and microbes such as the Zika virus - this book rivets attention on a new ecological reality.

©2017 Leslie Anthony (P)2017 Tantor Wissenschaft
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The book tackles a pressing and quite underrepresented environmental issue of our present time. Ecologically and socially complex and controversial, historically intricated, politically polarizing ... our treatment and attitudes towards natural environment and other species, our insufficient understanding of environmental interdependencies, our often unbalanced and human-centric approaches to pressing problems of the global planetary health crisis ... the reader is invited to get involved in this necessary discussion, and impacts of non-native species is an important part of this.

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