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Taming the ‘New Wild’: tackling the good and the bad with invasive species

Fred Pearce: The new wild—Why invasive species will be nature’s salvation. Beacon Press, Boston, 2015, xvi + 245 pp, $26.95, ISBN: 9780807033685

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The opinions expressed in this review are completely my own, but I wish to acknowledge valuable discussion and feedback from Ben Gilbert, Stuart Livingstone, Jay Stachowicz, and Art Weis.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON, M1C 1A4, USA

    Marc W. Cadotte

  2. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Willcocks St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B2, USA

    Marc W. Cadotte

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Cadotte, M.W. Taming the ‘New Wild’: tackling the good and the bad with invasive species. Biol Invasions 17, 3067–3072 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0933-0

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