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Foreword to Chapter Six

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In previous chapters Elton focused on invasions with striking impacts; here he explored reasons why such invaders succeeded and others either failed to survive or remained restricted and innocuous.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Daniel Simberloff

  2. Redpath Museum and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Anthony Ricciardi

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Simberloff, D., Ricciardi, A. (2020). Foreword to Chapter Six. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_11

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