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History, impacts, and prospects for controlling a bevy of devastating invaders

Carolyn M. King: Invasive predators in New Zealand: disaster on four small paws. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, xxxiii + 343 pp, €83.19 (hardback), ISBN: 978-3-030-32137-6

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Simberloff, D. History, impacts, and prospects for controlling a bevy of devastating invaders. Biol Invasions 23, 969–971 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-020-02395-2

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