[APWG] NEWS: Botanic gardens blamed for spreading plant invaders
Olivia Kwong
plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Mar 25 07:34:09 CDT 2011
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20928043.700-botanic-gardens-blamed-for-spreading-plant-invaders.html
Botanic gardens blamed for spreading plant invaders
17 March 2011 by Andy Coghlan
Magazine issue 2804
MORE than half of the world's most invasive plant species spread into new
habitats from botanic gardens, an analysis of historic "alien" escapes has
concluded. Although most cases analysed happened between the 1800s and the
mid-1900s, there are reports of more recent releases which merit a
tightening up of biosecurity, researchers warn.
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