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Alexandre Meinesz

Killer Algae

Translated by Daniel Simberloff
360 pages, 8 color plates, 5 line drawings, 7 maps  6 x 8  © 1999

Cloth $25.00

ISBN: 9780226519227   Published November 1999

Paper $18.00

ISBN: 9780226519234   Published May 2001

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Foreword by David Quammen
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: From the Discovery of the Alga in Monaco to Its Arrival in France
Chapter Two: The Alga Grows ... and the Polemic Begins
Chapter Three: Caulerpa Taxifolia, Superstar
Chapter Four: The Stakeholders Squabble ... and the Alga Spreads
Chapter Five: Research Progresses ... and the Polemic Persists
Chapter Six: Chiaroscuro: 1997-1998
Chapter Seven: The Three Lessons of Caulerpa
Appendix One: The Biology of Caulerpa taxifolia as Known in 1991
Appendix Two: Chronology of a Heralded Invasion
Appendix Three: Table of Measures
Appendix Four: Acronyms of Organizations
Appendix Five: Diagram of the French Government
Notes
Index
Awards
  • ForeWord Book-of-the-Year Awards Honorable Mention
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