"Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective: A Review Article"
This paper explores some routes into the history of plant transfers, especially during the period of European imperialism.
This paper explores some routes into the history of plant transfers, especially during the period of European imperialism.
This essay explores the dynamics of failure to strike a solution to the problem of invasive species in the form of water hyacinth through an examination of the competing domains of bureaucracy, science and private commercial interests in a colonial context.
Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population…
This article aims to demonstrate the complexity of the interchange of Japanese and European knowledge of natural history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
This article examines the contribution of socio-cultural and economic motives to the process of introductions and invasions of species, in this case, the introduction of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio) to Palestine’s freshwaters in the 1930s, while suggesting a third motive, an ideological one.