Abstract
The purpose of this article is to highlight aspects of the economic dimensions of the problem of invasive species. This is EDIS document FE386, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published June 2003.
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