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Bright, Chris. Bio-invasions: the spread of exotic species.
World watch, v. 8, July/Aug. 1995: 10-19. Burdick, Alan. The truth about invasive species. Discover, v.
26, May 2005: 34-41, 85. Campbell, Faith Thompson. Killer pigs, vines, and fungi: alien
species threaten native ecosystems. Endangered species technical
bulletin, v. 19, Sept. 1994: 3-5. McGrath, Susan. Attack of the alien invaders. National geographic,
v. 207, Mar. 2005: 92-117. McNeely, Jeffrey A. Strangers in our midst: the problem of invasive
alien species. Environment, v. 46, July/Aug. 2004: 16-31. Reichard, Sarah Hayden, and Peter S. White. Invasion biology:
an emerging field of study. Annals of the Missouri Botanical
Garden, v. 90, no. 1, 2003: 64-66. Stein, Bruce A., and Stephanie R. Flack, eds. America’s
least wanted: alien species invasions of U.S. ecosystems. Arlington,
VA, The Nature Conservancy, 1996. 31 p.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on invasive species can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, are listed below. Many of these subject headings may be subdivided.
Baskin, Yvonne. A plague of rats and rubbervines: the
growing threat of species invasions. Washington, Island Press/Shearwater
Books, c2002. 377 p. Biological invasions: a global perspective. Edited by J. A. Drake
and others. Chichester, New York, Published on behalf of the Scientific
Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) of the International
Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) by Wiley, c1989. 525 p. (SCOPE
report, 37) Biological pollution: an emerging global menace. Edited by Kerry
O. Britton. St. Paul, MN, American Phytopathological Society, c2004.
113 p. Bright, Chris. Life out of bounds: bioinvasion in a borderless
world. New York, Norton, c1998. 287 p. (Worldwatch environmental
alert series) Elton, Charles S. (Charles Sutherland). The ecology of invasions
by animals and plants. With a foreword by Daniel Simberloff. Chicago,
University of Chicago Press, 2000. 181 p. Invasive species in a changing world. Edited by Harold A. Mooney
and Richard J. Hobbs. Washington, Island Press, c2000. 457 p. Todd, Kim. Tinkering with Eden: a natural history of exotics
in America. New York, W. W. Norton, c2001. 302 p. Van Driesche, Jason, and Roy Van Driesche. Nature out of
place: biological invasions in the global age. Washington, Island Press,
c2000. 363 p.
Titles about Particular Geographical Areas Alien invaders in Canada’s waters, wetlands, and forests. Edited by Renata Claudi, Patrick Nantel, and Elizabeth Muckle-Jeffs.
Ottawa, Canadian Forest Service, Science Branch, c2002. 320 p. Biogeography of Mediterranean invasions. Edited by R. H. Groves
and F. di Castri. Cambridge, Eng., New York, Cambridge University
Press, 1991. 485 p.
Cox, George W. Alien species in North America and Hawaii: impacts on natural
ecosystems. Washington, Island Press, c1999. 387 p. Devine, Bob. Alien invasion: America’s battle with non-native
animals and plants. Washington, National Geographic Society, c1998.
280 p. Invasive aquatic species of Europe: distribution, impacts,
and management. Edited by Erkki Leppäkoski, Stephan Gollasch,
and Sergej Olenin. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c2002. 583 p. Invasive species in the Pacific: a technical review and draft regional
strategy. Technically edited by Greg Sherley. Samoa, South Pacific Regional Environment
Programme, 2000. 190 p.
Low, Tim. Feral future: the untold story of Australia’s exotic invaders. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. 394 p. National Synthesis Symposium on the Ecology of Biological Invasions
(1985, Stellenbosch, South Africa). The ecology and management
of biological invasions in southern Africa: proceedings of the
National Synthesis Symposium on the Ecology of Biological Invasions.
Edited by I. A. W. Macdonald, F. J. Kruger, A. A. Ferrar. Cape
Town, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986. 324 p. Strangers in paradise: impact and management of nonindigenous
species in Florida. Edited by Daniel Simberloff, Don C. Schmitz,
Tom C. Brown; foreword by Edward O. Wilson. Washington, Island
Press, c1997. 467 p. Yan, Xie, and others. Invasive species in China--an overview.
Biodiversity and conservation, v. 10, Aug. 2001: 1317-1341. Titles about Particular Types of Organisms Invasive arthropods in agriculture: problems and solutions. Editors: Guy
J. Hallman, Charles P. Schwalbe. Enfield, NH, Science Publishers, c2002. 447
p. Lever, Christopher. Naturalized reptiles and amphibians of the world. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003. 318 p. Marine bioinvasions: proceedings of a conference, January 24-27,
1999.
Edited by Judith Pederson. Cambridge, MA, MIT Sea Grant College Program,
MIT SG Center for Coastal Resources, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
[1999?] 427 p. Myers, Judith H., and Dawn Bazely. Ecology and control of introduced
plants. Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 313 p. Nonindigenous freshwater organisms: vectors, biology, and impacts. Edited
by Renata Claudi and Joseph H. Leach. Boca Raton, Lewis Publishers, c2000.
464 p. Predicting invasions of nonindigenous plants and plant pests. Committee
on the Scientific Basis for Predicting the Invasive Potential of Nonindigenous
Plants and Plant Pests in the United States, Board on Agriculture and Natural
Resources, Board on Life Sciences, Division on Earth and Life Studies,
National Research Council. Washington, National Academy Press, c2002. 194
p. Titles about Particular Topics Biological invasions: economic and environmental costs of alien plant,
animal, and microbe species. Edited by David Pimentel. Boca Raton, CRC
Press, c2002. 369 p. Cox, George W. Alien species and evolution: the evolutionary ecology
of exotic plants, animals, microbes, and interacting native species. Washington,
Island Press, 2004. 377 p. The Economics of biological invasions. Edited by Charles Perrings, Mark
Williamson, Silvana Dalmazzone. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, Edward
Elgar, c2000. 249 p. Exotic pests and diseases: biology and economics for biosecurity. Daniel
A. Sumner, editor. Ames, IA, Iowa State Press, 2003. 265 p. The Great reshuffling: human dimensions of invasive alien species. Edited
by Jeffrey A. McNeely. Gland, Switzerland, Cambridge, IUCN, 2001. 242 p.
Invasive species: vectors and management strategies. Edited by Gregory M. Ruiz
and James T. Carlton. Washington, Island Press, c2003. 517 p.
Handbooks, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries containing supplementary material include: Cronk, Quentin C. B., and Janice L. Fuller. Plant invaders:
the threat to natural ecosystems. London, New York, Chapman & Hall,
1995. 241 p. (‘People and plants’ conservation manual) Fuller, Pam L., Leo G. Nico, and James D. Williams. Nonindigenous
fishes introduced into inland waters of the United States. Bethesda,
MD, American Fisheries Society, c1999. 613 p. (American Fisheries
Society special publication, 27) Invasive alien species: a toolkit of best prevention and
management practices. Edited by Rüdiger Wittenberg and Matthew J.W. Cock;
Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) ... [et al.]. Wallingford,
Oxon, UK, New York, CABI Pub., c2001. 228 p. Invasive plants: weeds of the global garden. John M. Randall & Janet
Marinelli, editors. Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c1996.
111 p. (21st-century gardening series, handbook #149) Long, John L. Introduced mammals of the world: their history,
distribution, and influence. Wallingford, Oxon, UK, CABI Pub.,
Collingwood, VIC, c2003. 589 p. Randall, R. P. (Roderick Peter). A global compendium of weeds.
Melbourne, R.G. and F.J. Richardson, c2002. Weber, Ewald. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference
guide to environmental weeds. Wallingford, Oxon, UK, Cambridge,
MA, CABI Pub., 2003. 548 p. World weeds: natural histories and distribution. LeRoy Holm ...
[et al.]. New York, Wiley, c1997. 1129 p.
International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions (2nd, 2001,
New Orleans, La.). Marine bioinvasions: patterns, processes,
and perspectives. Edited by Judith Pederson. Dordrecht, Boston, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, 2003. 143 p.
Invasive species and biodiversity management. Edited by Odd Terje Sandlund, Peter
Johan Schei, and Åslaug Viken. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Boston, Kluwer Academic,
c1999. 431 p. (Population and community biology series, v. 24) Nonindigenous Estuarine & Marine Organisms (NEMO): proceedings
of the conference and workshop, Seattle, Washington, April 1993.
[Silver Spring, MD], U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, [1994]. 125 p.
Harmful non-indigenous species in the United States. Washington,
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, 1993. 391 p. (OTA-F-565) Invasive species: clearer focus and greater commitment needed
to effectively manage the problem: report to Executive Agency Officials.
United States General Accounting Office. Washington, GAO, 2002.
96 p. (GAO-03-1) Miller, James H. Nonnative invasive plants of southern forests:
a field guide for identification and control. Asheville, NC, U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station,
2003. 93 p. (General technical report SRS, 62) Thomas, Lindsey Kay. The impact of three exotic plant species
on a Potomac island. Washington, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1980.
179 p. (National Park Service scientific monograph, no. 13) Westbrooks, Randy G. Invasive plants: changing the landscape
of America: fact book. Washington, Federal Interagency Committee
for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds, 1998. 109 p.
Technical Reports and other types of literature are indexed in the following guide:
Reports listed below are available in the microform collection of the Science Reading Room. These and other reports are sold by the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161. NTIS telephone: (703) 605-6585. NTIS web site: http://www.ntis.gov.
Dissertations can be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress.
Fernberg, Laurence Seth. Causes and consequences of purple
loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L.) invasions on native wetlands.
Ann Arbor, MI, UMI, 1998. Howe, Katherine Mitchell. The ecology of invasions in a Minnesota
grassland: characteristics of invasive species and invaded communities
and the effects of global change. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI, 2003.
Kellogg, Chever Harden. Plant community succession and invasion in restored
freshwater marshes. Ann Arbor, MI, UMI, 2002. Saltonstall, Kristin. Phylogeography of Phragmites australis
in North America: A historical perspective on a cryptic invasion.
Ann Arbor, MI, UMI, 2003.
Clewis, Beth. Biological invasions: a selected bibliography. Monticello, IL, Vance Bibliographies, 1991. 8 p. Understanding and managing invasive plants in wilderness and other
natural areas: an annotated reading list. Authors, Sophie Osborn and others. Fort
Collins, CO, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, 2002. 65 p.
Abstracting and Indexing Services that index relevant journal articles and other types of literature are listed below. Some suggested terms for searching include Invasive Species, Invasive Plants, headings listed in the Subject Headings section of this guide, or more specific headings, depending upon the topic of interest. Many of the titles may now be available in electronic format. Consult a reference librarian for the location and format of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room
Journals that often contain relevant articles include the following:
Bax, N., and others. The control of biological invasions in the
world’s oceans. Conservation biology, v. 15, Oct. 2001: 1234-1246. Brooks, Matthew L., and others. Effects of invasive alien plants
on fire regimes. BioScience, v. 54, July 2004: 677-688.
Chapuis, J. L., P. Boussès, and G. Barnaud. Alien mammals, impact and
management in the French subantarctic islands. Biological conservation, v.
67, no. 2, 1994: 97-104. Fine, Paul V. A. The invasibility of tropical forests by exotic
plants. Journal of tropical ecology, v. 18, Sept. 2002: 687-705.
Ghazoul, Jaboury. Flowers at the front line of invasion? Ecological entomology,
v. 27, Oct. 2002: 638-640. Hall, S. R., and E. L. Mills. Exotic species in large lakes of
the world. Aquatic ecosystem health and management, v. 3, no. 1,
2000: 105-135. Kolar, Cynthia S., and David M. Lodge. Ecological predictions
and risk assessment for alien fishes in North America. Science,
v. 298, Nov. 8, 2002: 1233-1236. MacIsaac, Hugh J., Igor A. Grigorovich, and Anthony Ricciardi.
Reassessment of species invasions concepts: the Great Lakes basin
as a model. Biological invasions, v. 3, no. 4, 2001: 405-416. Mack, Richard N. Plant naturalizations and invasions in the eastern
United States: 1634-1860. Annals of the Missouri Botanical
Garden,
v. 90, no. 1, 2003: 77-90. Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., and D. Savini. Biological invasions as
a component of global change in stressed marine ecosystems [review].
Marine pollution bulletin, v. 46, May 2003: 542-551. Reed, Catherine C. Keeping invasive plants out of restoration.
Ecological restoration, v. 22, Sept. 2004: 210-216. Simberloff, Daniel. How much information on population biology
is needed to manage introduced species? Conservation biology, v.
17, Feb. 2003: 83-92. Thomson, Diane. Competitive interactions between the invasive
European honey bee and native bumble bees. Ecology, v. 85, Feb.
2004: 458-470. Vivanco, Jorge M., and others. Biogeographical variation in community
response to root allelochemistry: novel weapons and exotic invasion.
Ecology letters, v. 7, Apr. 2004: 285-292. With, Kimberly A. The landscape ecology of invasive spread. Conservation
biology, v. 16, Oct. 2002: 1192-1203. Ziska, Lewis H. Evaluation of the growth response of six invasive
species to past, present, and future atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Journal of experimental botany, v. 54, Jan. 2003: 395-404.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following:
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