![]() Chapter Three details ways we try to prevent or control the damage through knowledge, predictions, establishing alerts, and eradication if possible. ![]() The second chapter gives an in-depth look at systems-especially ecosystems-and how they are affected by the arrival of invasive species. In the first of four chapters, the book examines characteristics of an invasive species and how it might have travelled to a new location, as well as the fact that humans have been responsible for much of this movement. The reader is invited to consider both sides of the story of those species we call invasive, in keeping with the concept of balance noted in the title. ![]() The “Introduction” cites a park in Victoria, British Columbia, home to native Garry oak and many non-native plants and animals brought from elsewhere. ![]() As its subtitle, How Invasive Species are Changing the Planet, suggests, the focus is on those organisms that spread and cause problems when moved to a new place. Nature Out of Balance adds another title to the growing series, “Orca Footprints”, on ecological literacy. ![]()
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