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Description:
Title:
Special issue on invasive alien species and protected areas : invasive alien species and biodiversity conservation : the anomaly.
Imprint:
Auckland, N.Z. : Invasive Species Specialist Group of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, 2003.
Physical Description:
40 leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
General Note:
Issued as: Aliens (Auckland, N.Z.), no. 17 (2003).
Title from caption.
Abstract:
This special issue of the IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) newsletter is devoted to the impact of invasive species on protected areas and implications for biodiversity conservation. Includes case studies of many types of protected areas worldwide, and a section on designing representative systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) to protect marine life from invasive species and other external factors. For further information see the IUCN ISSG web site: http://www.issg.org/
Formatted Contents Note:
Kruger National Park (South Africa) -- Keep them out of paradise: Invasives at the World Parks Congress -- Takitimu Conservation Area (Cook Islands): Landowning clans in charge of the Kakerori Recovery Programme -- Parks in peril in the islands of French Polynesia -- National Park Service exotic plant management teams: an innovative response to harmful invasive species (USA) -- New Zealand "Mainland Islands": ecological restoration through intensive multi-pest control -- Coral reef invasions -- Dealing with inasives in the National Park of American Samoa -- Introduced animals in Andaman & Nicobar (India) -- Vision, energy, commitment: key to controlling invasive vegetation -- Experimenting with invasives in conservation areas-- Wetlands: Ruddy Duck control in Spain -- Cooperation in the war on invasives (Mid Atlantic Parks, USA) -- Control of IAS in nature reserves in China -- Invasion of rural landscapes of Reunion Island by Acacia mearnsii -- Ten years of preventing rat introd. to the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, USA -- Cambell Island rat eradication -- Search and destroy programme for Mimosa pigra (Kakadu National Park, Australia) -- Pacific oysters in European Wadden Sea -- Invading mussels threaten Amazon -- Designing representative and adequate marine protected areas in a structured environment: implications for marine invasive alien species management -- Pond apple: an increasing problem in the Wet Tropics World Heritage area of north Queensland, Australia -- Management of IAS in Galapagos -- Silent invasion in national wildlife refuges (USA) -- Invasive alien flora in (Sri Lanka) -- Rainbow trout in tropics -- Fiordland: World Heritage (NZ) -- Ecological weeds surveillance -- Tongariro Nl. Park: biocontrol (NZ) -- Zoos against releases in wild -- Quarantine for South African Subantarctic Islands.
Local Note:
SILVER SPRING: Library c. is photocopy.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Topical Term:
Biological invasions.
Biological invasions Management Case studies.
Introduced organisms.
Biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity conservation Case studies.
Protected areas Management Case studies.
Marine parks and reserves Management.
Coral reef ecology.
Corporate Name:
IUCN--The World Conservation Union. Invasive Species Specialist Group
Uncontrolled Title:
Aliens (Auckland, N.Z.)
Access Information:
| Library | Location | Call Number | Type | Copies |
| NOAA Central Library, Silver Spring, MD | STACKS | QH353 .I585 2003 | BOOK | 1
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