Bioinvaders
Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.
Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.
In this article, which considers the settlement of the high-rainfall forests of Eastern Australia, it is argued that the main pests were indigenous not exotic.
The objectives of this study were to describe changes in land use during c. 350 years in a Swedish agricultural landscape in relation to changes in human population and livestock, and to analyse relationships between historical land use and present-day plant species diversity.
Wild Earth 11, no. 1, features stories about New England’s wilderness: primeval forests, the Northwoods, large mammals, old growth forests, as well as conservation history and biodiversity of the eastern United States.