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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesagricultural alien species American animals Arboretum Australia become beech beetles Big Island biocontrol agents birds brown tree snake buckthorn century Chapter chemical chestnut communities damage Darby disease diversity eastern ecological ecosystem effective efforts environmental eradication established extinction fennel feral pigs fish FPO Slide global grasses habitat Hakalau Hawai‘i Hawaii’s Hawaiian hemlock hemlock woolly adelgid herbicides herbivorous host range human impacts important infestations insects introduced species introductions invaders invasive species isolation Jason Van Driesche kind Lakes land LandCare Leafy Spurge Maui miconia National Park native ecosystems native forest native mussels native plants native species natural enemies Nature Conservancy nonnative plants nonnative species North America Ohio parasitoids pathogens percent pest population prevent public awareness purple loosestrife refuge release restoration river Santa Cruz Island seeds sheep ships shrubs soil species problems spread spurge control suppress threat tion understory United vegetation watershed Wildlife zebra mussels Bibliographic information |