A Brief History of Invasion Biology (1 of 3): Inventing & defining “native”
An excerpt from the book-in-progress by Nikki Hill & me: "Stop Blaming the Messengers: A critique of invasion biology & ideology"
Inventing & defining “native”
For some species to be “invasive,” others must be “native,” so a history of invasion biology must necessarily begin with the origins of the concept of nativeness itself.
The first substantive discussion of introduced plants by a European scientific fig…
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