Alien Insects: Threats and Implications for Conservation of Galápagos Islands
Open Access
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 99 (1) , 121-143
- https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2006)099[0121:aitaif]2.0.co;2
Abstract
Alien species are the principal threat to the conservation of the Galápagos Islands, but little is known about the status of nonindigenous GalápagosKeywords
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