Pests And Parasites As Migrants. An Australian Perspective

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Australian Academy Of Science
Publisher Place: Canberra
Publisher Year: 1985
Edition: First Edition

Description: 192 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Australia Was Colonized 200 Years Ago By Exotic Human Beings From Britain. These Were British Free Men And British Convicts And With Them Came The Disease Of Freemen And Convicts. But It Was Not Only Human Diseases, Aboard Were Organisms That Were Capable Of Causing Disease In Plants And Animals That Never Occurred In The Evolutionary History Of The New Colony.

Publishers Description: This book discusses the scientific, social and legal aspects of the migration of plants, animals and microbes. It is based on a meeting of the Australian Academy of Sciepces, and presents an Australian perspective. The European colonisation of Australia brought with it a steady flood of migrant species. Some like the prickly pear and the rabbit have produced damaging plagues that have only been controlled by the importation of selected parasites. Recent controversies have centred around the value and wisdom of deliberately importing other organisms, notably foot and mouth disease virus and the moth which controls Purple Vipers Bugloss.

ISBN: 0858471280