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Two new French books about invasions

Vincent Albouy: Étonnants Envahisseurs: Ces Espèces Venues d’Ailleurs. Éditions Quæ, Versailles, 2017, 160 pp, €16, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-7592-2661-0 Guillaume Fried: Guide des Plantes Invasives (2nd ed.). Belin, Paris, 2017, 304 pp, € 21, paperback, ISBN: 978-2-410-00417-5

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Simberloff, D. Two new French books about invasions. Biol Invasions 20, 809–812 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1562-6

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