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State of the art of eradicating island invasives…and much more

C. R. Veitch, M. N Clout, A. R. Martin, J. C. Russell, and C. J. West (eds): Island invasives: scaling up to meet the challenge. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 2019, xiv + 734 pp, £40, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-8317-1962-7

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Simberloff, D. State of the art of eradicating island invasives…and much more. Biol Invasions 21, 3741–3743 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-02028-3

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