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SUBMITTER: Dyer EE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5369319 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dyer Ellie E EE Redding David W DW Blackburn Tim M TM
Scientific data 20170328
The introduction of species to locations where they do not naturally occur (termed aliens) can have far-reaching and unpredictable environmental and economic consequences. Therefore there is a strong incentive to stem the tide of alien species introduction and spread. In order to identify broad patterns and processes of alien invasions, a spatially referenced, global dataset on the historical introductions and alien distributions of a complete taxonomic group is required. Here we present the Glo ...[more]