Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393318142)

Worldwatch Institute researcher Chris Bright explains why conservation biologists are raising the alarm about a global threat to biodiversity that is unfolding largely unnoticed -- bioinvasion, the spread of alien, "exotic" organisms.

With the exception of a few spectacular invasions, like the zebra mussel's conquest of the Great Lakes, there has been little public recognition of the dangers posed by these invading species. But exotic species are injuring our biological wealth on virtually every level -- from the genetic (when exotics interbreed with native species) to the wholesale transformation of landscapes.

Life Out of Bounds shows that this "biological pollution" is now beginning to corrode the world's economies as well. But the policy responses, on both the national and international levels, have usually been weak and uncoordinated. This book outlines the current scientific research on the threat, the social and economic implications if these invasions are allowed to continue unchecked, and steps that can be taken to contain the spread of exotic species.

Author: Chris Bright
ISBN-10: 0393318141
ISBN-13: 9780393318142
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1998
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.47w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/1998 pg. 1502
Publishers Weekly 11/02/1998 pg. 60
Library Journal 12/01/1998 pg. 148
Library Journal 11/01/1999