Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 19:21
in Biology & Nature
Invasive species can disrupt natural and human-made ecosystems, throwing food webs out of balance and damaging the services they provide to people. Now scientists have begun to put a price tag on this damage. Ecologists have listed the invasive species that cause the most harm to environment and cost the most money to control.
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