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Invasion ecology goes to town: from disdain to sympathy

2017-12-01

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How can one understand the increasing interest in “urban invasions”, or biological invasions in urban environments? We argue that interest in urban invasions echoes a broader evolution in how ecologists view “the city” in relation to “the natural”. Previously stark categorical distinctions between urban and natural, human and wild, city and ecology have floundered. Drawing on conceptual material and an analysis of...

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Literature Corpus work: d1d7d20e-b627-5d77-921a-a7c23d99d61e
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-017-1588-9

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