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The roots of this chapter, and indeed this book, lay in lecture notes for an advanced zoology class on “Ecology and Geographical Distribution” (later called “Faunal History”) that Elton taught at Oxford starting about 1928.
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Simberloff, D., Ricciardi, A. (2020). Foreword to Chapter Two. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_3
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