Field guide to invasive plants and animals in Britain / Olaf Booy, Max Wade, Helen Roy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booy, Olaf, author.

Wade, Max, author.

Roy, Helen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invasive plants--Great Britain--Identification.

Invasive plants.

Introduced animals--Great Britain--Identification.

Introduced animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The impact of invasive organisms is second only to habitat loss as a threat to biodiversity and yet, despite increasing ecological awareness, people remain largely unaware of these plants and animals and their potentially devastating impact. Although most biological introductions fail, many prove successful and these can prove disastrous for native fauna and flora.This field guide will enable the identification of a range of invasive plants and animals now found in Britain. Though these species are of particular concern to conservationists there has previously been no unified guide devoted to their recognition. This book will act both as an ID guide, appealing to the amateur naturalist, and as an important tool for ecologists and land managers attempting to tackle the problem posed by invasive species.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Scope; How to use this field guide; Recording invasive non-native species; Biosecurity; Invasive non-native species and the law; Plants; Introduction; Trees; False Acacia; Tree of Heaven; Italian Alder; Rum Cherry; Turkey Oak; Red Oak; Evergreen Oak; Sitka Spruce; Lodgepole Pine; Leyland Cypress; Lawson's Cypress; Shrubs; Buddleia; Red-osier Dogwood; Currants; Cotoneasters; Garden Privet; Snowberry; Firethorn; Shallon; Honeysuckle shrubs; Cherry Laurel; Portuguese Laurel; Rhododendron; Yellow Azalea; Tamarisk; Japanese Rose; Fuchsia

Oregon GrapeClimbers and creepers; Greater Periwinkle; Virginia creepers and Boston Ivy; Honeysuckle climbers; Russian Vine; Large Bindweed; Herbs; Montbretia; Garlics; Spanish Bluebell; Pitcher Plant; American Skunk-cabbage; Giant Rhubarb; White Butterbur; Winter Heliotrope; Giant Butterbur; Japanese Knotweed; Giant Knotweed; Hybrid Japanese Knotweed; Himalayan Knotweed; Red Valerian; Canadian Goldenrod; Ragweed; Oxford Ragwort; Beaked Hawk's-beard; Perfoliate Alexanders; Giant Hogweed; Orange Balsam; Indian or Himalayan Balsam; Small Balsam; Tree Lupin; Nootka Lupin; Russell Lupin

Pink PurslaneSlender Speedwell; Pirri-pirri-bur; American Willowherb; New Zealand Willowherb; Hottentot Fig; Purple Dewplant; Thorn Apple; Variegated Yellow Archangel; Grasses and bamboos; Pampas Grass; Miscanthus grasses; Bamboos; Mosses and liverworts; Heath Star-moss; Cape Thread-moss; Southern Crestwort; Aquatic plants; Carolina Water-shield; Parrot's-feather; New Zealand Pigmyweed; Large-flowered Waterweed; Canadian and Nuttall's Waterweeds; Curly Waterweed; Giant Salvinia; Least Duckweed; Water Fern; Water Hyacinth; Water Lettuce; Floating Pennywort; Cape Pondweed; Water Primrose

Slender Sweet FlagPickerelweed; Duck Potato; Slender Bulrush; Animals; Introduction; Mammals; House Mouse; Brown Rat; Edible Dormouse; Grey Squirrel; Siberian Chipmunk; Rabbit; Deer; Chinese Water Deer; Muntjac Deer; Fallow Deer; Sika; American Mink; Feral Ferret; Black-tailed Prairie Dog; Raccoon; Raccoon Dog; Coatimundi; Striped Skunk; Crested and Himalayan Porcupines; Coypu; Muskrat; Birds; Parakeets; Ring-necked Parakeet; Monk Parakeet; Eurasian Eagle Owl; Greater Canada Goose; Egyptian Goose; Ruddy Duck; Mandarin Duck; Black Swan; Sacred Ibis; Indian House Crow; Amphibians; Alpine Newt

Italian Crested NewtAfrican Clawed Frog; American Bullfrog; Marsh Frog; Midwife Toad; Reptiles; Red-eared Terrapin; Wall Lizard; Western Green Lizard; Aesculapian Snake; Fish; Sunbleak; Orfe; Goldfish; Common Carp; Topmouth Gudgeon; Fathead Minnow; Wels Catfish; Black Bullhead; Rainbow Trout; Zander; Pumpkinseed; Sturgeon species; Eastern Mosquitofish; Ponto-Caspian gobies; Freshwater invertebrates; Non-native mussels; Zebra Mussel; Quagga Mussel; Jenkins' Spire Shell; Asian Clam; Chinese Mitten Crab; Non-native crayfish; Signal Crayfish; Noble Crayfish; Narrow-clawed Crayfish

Red Swamp Crayfish

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 16, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version: Booy, Olaf. Field guide to invasive plants and animals in Britain.

ISBN:

1-4729-1153-9