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By the time EIAP was published, human activities over the preceding few centuries had likely moved hundreds to thousands of marine species beyond their natural realms, but such introductions had been reported only incidentally; this chapter provided the first global overview of invasions in the world’s oceans.

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Simberloff, D., Ricciardi, A. (2020). Foreword to Chapter Five. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_9

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