Unwelcome Guests: Invasives and Pests INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES INTRODUCTIONS WITH INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND DOMESTIC TRANSPORTATION: IDENTIFYING PRIMARY VECTORS AND CROSS-BORDER PATHWAYS IN NORTH AMERICA
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Denys Yemshanov ([email protected]), Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada Frank H. Koch, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Research Triangle Park, NC USA Mark Ducey, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH USA Manuel Colunga-Garcia, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI USA Klaus Koehler, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, ON Canada
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