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SUBMITTER: Essl F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3017203 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Essl Franz F Dullinger Stefan S Rabitsch Wolfgang W Hulme Philip E PE Hülber Karl K Jarošík Vojtěch V Kleinbauer Ingrid I Krausmann Fridolin F Kühn Ingolf I Nentwig Wolfgang W Vilà Montserrat M Genovesi Piero P Gherardi Francesca F Desprez-Loustau Marie-Laure ML Roques Alain A Pyšek Petr P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20101220 1
Globalization and economic growth are widely recognized as important drivers of biological invasions. Consequently, there is an increasing need for governments to address the role of international trade in their strategies to prevent species introductions. However, many of the most problematic alien species are not recent arrivals but were introduced several decades ago. Hence, current patterns of alien-species richness may better reflect historical rather than contemporary human activities, a p ...[more]