Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. An Investigation of Invasion: The Influence of New Zealand Snails in Freshwater and Brackish Water Ecosystems
(Samuel A. Cimino, Valance E. F. Brenneis and Angela L. Strecker, Department of Environmental Science and Management, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, US, and others)
Chapter 2. Brazilian Rattlesnake ( Crotalus durissus Linnaeus, 1758) in the Atlantic Forest of Rio De Janeiro State: A Case of Biological Invasion or a Red Alert to Public Health?
(Jorge Antônio Lourenço Pontes, Raniery Tibau Rodrigues, Aníbal Rafael Melgarejo-Giménez [In Memorium], Departamento de Ciências, Faculdade de Formação de Professores, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and others)
Chapter 3. Terrestrial Invasive Species on Fernando de Noronha Archipelago: What We Know and the Way Forward
(Tatiane Micheletti, Filipe S. Fonseca, Paulo R. Mangini, Patricia P. Serafini, Ricardo Krul, Thayná J. Mello, Marina G. Freita, Ricardo A. Dias, Jean C. R. Silva, Maria Fernanda V. Marvulo, Ricardo Araujo, Vinícius P. O. Gasparotto, Carlos R. Abrahão, Raoni Rebouças, Luís Felipe Toledo, Paulo G. S. C. Siqueira, Heitor O. Duarte, Márcio J. C. Moura, Renata C. Fernandes-Santo and James C. Russell, Instituto Brasileiro para Medicina da Conservação, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil)
Chapter 4. Biological Invasion by Exotic Plants in Urban Forest Fragments of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Southeastern Brazil
(Ana Angélica Monteiro de Barros, Davi Nepomuceno da Silva Machado, Joyce de Melo Silva, Jorge Antônio Lourenço Pontes and Leonor de Andrade Ribas, Departamento de Ciências, Faculdade de Formação de Professores, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, and others)
Chapter 5. Invasive Exotic Palm Trees Modify the Structure of Vascular Epiphyte Community on an Atlantic Forest Island
(André Felippe Nunes-Freitas, Débora Cristina de Assis Ribeiro, Alexandre Santos de Meireles, Danilo Braga de Azevedo, Guilherme Henrique Almeida, Wagner Francisco de Oliveira and Thereza Christina Rocha-Pessôa, Departamento de Ciências Ambientais, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Chapter 6. The Huge Increased Interest in Invasive Plants and Changes in the Main Topics Studied: An Analysis of the Last Two Decades
(Vinícius Londe, PhD)
Chapter 7. Invasive Wood Derived Nanoporous Carbons for Mitigation of Water and Air Pollution
(Edward Enrique Gómez-Delgado, Gisel Vanesa Nunell, Pablo Ricardo Bonelli and Ana Lea Cukierman, Departamento de Industrias, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and others)
Chapter 8. Half of Mexico’s Invasive Plant Species May Be Useful for Heavy Metal Phytoremediation
(Elgar Castillo-Mendoza, Patricia Mussali-Galante, Leticia Valencia-Cueva, Gabriel Flores Franco, Luisa Castrejón Godinez, Isela Hernández-Plata, Miguel Ángel Galván, Alexis J. Rodríguez Solis and Efraín Tovar-Sánchez Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, México, and others)
Index