Books

Provides general resources for citations, with some links, for selected books dealing with invasive species. See other sections for species specific information:

• Aquatic Species
• Plants
• Animals
• Microbes

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General

• Theoretical Aspects of Biological Invasions
• Individual or Practical Problems
• Management and Control
• Links to Other Resources

Theoretical Aspects of Biological Invasions

Bright, Chris. Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. New York: W. W. Norton, 1998.

Burdick, Alan. Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.

Constanza, Robert, John Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, and Richard Norgaard. An Introduction to Ecological Economics. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1997.

Cox, George W. Alien Species and Evolution: The Evolutionary Ecology of Exotic Plants, Animals, Microbes, and Interacting Native Species. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2004.

Drake, James A., ed. Handbook of Alien Species in Europe. Springer Netherlands, 2009.

Elton, Charles S. The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Holmes, Thomas P.; Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Abt, Karen L. (Eds.). The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species. Springer, 2008.

Isard, Scott A., and Stuart H. Gage. Flow of Life in the Atmosphere: An Airscape Approach to Understanding Invasive Organisms. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2001.

McNeely, Jeffry A., Harold A. Mooney, Laurie E. Neville, Peter Johan Schei, and Jeffery K. Waage, eds. Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species. (PDF | 714 KB) Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Global Invasive Species Programme, 2001.

Mooney, Harold A., and Richard J. Hobbs, eds. Invasive Species in a Changing World. Covelo, Calif.: Island Press, 2000.

Moulton, Michael P., and James Sanderson. Wildlife Issues in a Changing World. 2d ed. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 1998.

Perrings, C., M. Williamson, and S. Dalmazzone, eds. The Economics of Biological Invasions. Northampton, Mass.: Edwar Elgar Publishing, 2000.

Simberloff, Daniel, and M. Rejmánek, eds. Encyclopedia of Biological invasivions. University of California Press, 2011.
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Shigesada, N., and K. Kawasaki. Biological Invasions: Theory and Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Terrill, Ceiridwen. Unnatural Landscapes: Tracking Invasive Species. Arizona: Univeristy of Arizona Press, 2007.

Van Driesche, J., and R. Van Driesche. Nature Out of Place: Biological Invasions in the Global Age. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Individual or Practical Problems

Baskin, Yvonne. Plague of Rats and Rubbervines: The Growing Threat of Species Invasions. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003.

Claudi R., P. Nantel, and E. Muckle-Jeffs E., eds. Alien Invaders in Canada’s
Waters, Wetlands, and Forests. Ottawa, Canada: Natural Resources
Canada, 2002.

Cox, George W. Alien Species in North America and Hawaii: Impacts on Natural Ecosystems. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1999.

Cowie, Robert H. and Staples, George W., eds. Hawai`i's Invasive Species. Mutual Publishing and Bishop Museum Press, 2001.

Devine, Robert S.  Alien Invasion: America's Battle With Non-Native Animals and Plants. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1998.

Goldschmidt, T. Darwin’s Dreampond. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1996.

Low, T. Feral Future. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Miller, Mark, and Robert Fabian, eds. Harmful Invasive Species: Legal Responses. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute, 2004.

Stein, Bruce A., and Stephanie R. Flack, eds. America's Least Wanted: Alien Species Invasions of U.S. Ecosystems. Arlington, Va.: The Nature Conservancy, 1996.

Todd, Kim. Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotic Species in America. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Management and Control

Driesche Roy V., Mark Hoddle, and Ted Center. Control of Pests and Weeds by Natural Enemies: An Introduction to Biological Control. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

McKnight, Bill N., ed. Biological Pollution: The Control and Impact of Invasive Exotic Species. Indianapolis: Indiana Academy of Science, 1993.

Pimentel, David. CRC Handbook of Pest Management in Agriculture, Second Edition, Volume I. New York: CRC Press, 1990.

Ruberson, John. R. Handbook of Pest Management. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1999.

Ruiz, Gregory M., and James T. Carlton. Invasive Species: Vectors and Management Strategies. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2003.

Simberloff, Daniel, Don C. Schmitz, Tom C. Brown, and Edward O. Wilson.  Strangers in Paradise: Impact and Management of Nonindigenous Species in Florida. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.

Veitch C. R., and M. N. Clout, eds. Turning the Tide: The Eradication of Invasive Species. Auckland: IUCN, 2002.

Links to Other Resources

A Rising Tide of Species and Literature: A Review of Some Recent Books on Biological Invasions (USDA access through DigiTop)
BioOne.
Daniel Simberloff, BioScience (Mar 2004, Vol. 54 No. 3)

Weed Information
Weed Information (Australia).