Box 1.2 (continued)
Much of the information collated in this book came from that compiled in South Africa’s
first national-level assessment of the status of biological invasions and their management and
an accompanying special issue of a journal (Wilson et al. 2017)
1.1.6 A Strong Research Tradition in Invasion Science
South Africa is one of the leading countries in terms of research on biological
invasions globally, and contributes well over half of the research on the topic in
Africa (Pyšek et al. 2008; Fig. 1.1f), with a strong collaborative network of
researchers (Abrahams et al. 2019; Fig. 1.1f). An active research interest in biological invasions in South Africa dates back over 100 years, and this book builds, on
information contained in several previous reviews of the field (Fig. 1.4). The most
important of these are discussed briefly here.
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Much of the information collated in this book came from that compiled in South Africa’s
first national-level assessment of the status of biological invasions and their management and
an accompanying special issue of a journal (Wilson et al. 2017)
1.1.6 A Strong Research Tradition in Invasion Science
South Africa is one of the leading countries in terms of research on biological
invasions globally, and contributes well over half of the research on the topic in
Africa (Pyšek et al. 2008; Fig. 1.1f), with a strong collaborative network of
researchers (Abrahams et al. 2019; Fig. 1.1f). An active research interest in biological invasions in South Africa dates back over 100 years, and this book builds, on
information contained in several previous reviews of the field (Fig. 1.4). The most
important of these are discussed briefly here.
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