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Foreword to Chapter Nine

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In Chap. 8 , Elton defined “conservation” as “coexistence between man and nature, even if it has to be a modified kind of man and a modified kind of nature.”

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Daniel Simberloff

  2. Redpath Museum and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Anthony Ricciardi

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Simberloff, D., Ricciardi, A. (2020). Foreword to Chapter Nine. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_17

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