ALIEN PLANTS. By Clive A. Stace & Michael J. Crawley. Collins New Naturalist Library No. 129. Standard Hardback Edition.

Stace (Clive A.) & Crawley (Michael J.).

ISBN 10: 000750215X / ISBN 13: 9780007502158

Published by Collins. New Naturalist Series. 2015, 2015

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ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 2015). 2015 1st edition. Hardback issue. 8vo (155 x 223mm). Ppxiv,626. Colour photographs & illustrations, bibliography, decorative end-papers. Green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. Signed by both authors. "In the British Isles alien plants are common. and can be both useful and harmful. Over the last fifty years, the study of alien plants has progressed from an eccentric hobby, enabling amateur botanists to increase the total of wild plants that they could record, to the full-blown sciences of invasion ecology and alien genetics. Alien species no longer present an optional extra, but must be accepted as an integral part of mainstream botanical investigation. The amount and breadth of data that has been accumulated on alien plants in the British Isles is exceptional. The subject has become familiar both to naturalists and the general public, due to such diverse topics as damage to the environment by Japanese Knotweed and New Zealand Pigmyweed, the attraction of bees and butterflies to cities by such plants as Buddleja, the court cases involving Leylandii hedges, the threats to the purity of our native bluebell by the mass planting of its Spanish relative, and the cultivation of new sorts of Christmas tree." . Seller Inventory # 53399

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Title: ALIEN PLANTS. By Clive A. Stace & Michael J....

Publisher: Collins. New Naturalist Series. 2015

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: new

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

The word 'aliens' is used in many contexts, conjuring up a range of sentiments including fear, dislike and also fascination. It is used to describe strange beings from Mars, human migrants, and non-native plants and animals - the term is employed by biologists to indicate organisms that have been introduced by people to new territories.

About the Author:

CLIVE ANTHONY STACEBSc, PhD, DSc graduated from the University of London in 1959 and gained his doctorate at the Natural History Museum London in 1963. For the next 41 years he carried out research and teaching in the Universities of Manchester and Leicester, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Plant Taxonomy. He has been a keen field botanist for over 60 years, and field work was an important part of both his research and teaching programmes. He was President of the Botanical Society of the British Isles from 1987 to 1989. He has produced about 200 scientific papers and books, including the New Flora of the British Isles (1991). He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Linnean Society in 2004.

MICHAEL JOHN CRAWLEY, FRS is an ecologist and Professor of Biology at Imperial College London. He is based at Silwood Park campus near Ascot, Berkshire. His research focuses on plant ecology.