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Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

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Notes that while globalization and international trade are considered prime drivers of biological invasions, more invasive species were introduced several decades ago, despite the fact that global trade has since then increased. Hypothesizes that we will not see the effect of current invasive specie introductions until several decades in the future
Author: 
cassady@mit.edu
Institution: 
National Academy of Science
Year: 
2011
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