Invasion Biology

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1. minerjoeJul 2020
   > danger of invasive species

   For a good counter to all the "invasive biology" craze see:

   https://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Biology-Pseudoscience-David-...

   He raises many good points. Much damage to the eocology has been done in removing "invasive" species.

   Now, diseses, those can really devestate. I'd love to still have our (US) chestnut forests.

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2. culiFeb 2023
   > the Ventnor Method

   wild gardening, agroforestry, permaculture, etc. Why do people feel the need to rename basic ideas

   Anyways it seems very adjacent to theories and criticisms of invasion biology. See:

   - Invasion Biology: Critique of a Pseudoscience (academic book)

   - The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature's Salvation (popular science book)

   - A systematic review of context bias in invasion biology (review, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182502)

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3. _MicroftJul 2020
   I research about sources (both publications and authors) to see what credence I should lend them. The little I could find out about this book was a review at [0] that concludes with "I would not recommend this book to those beginning a study of Invasion Biology. It is a polemic presumably aimed at the practitioners of what the author holds is a pseudoscience, and perhaps also at policy‐makers."

   Make of that what you will.

   [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4242384/

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