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Science 27 April 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5824, p. 544
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140898
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ECOLOGY:
Sparrow Wars, Reptilian Eucalypts, and Xenophobes

Jessica Gurevitch

American Perceptions of Immigrant and Invasive Species
Strangers on the Land
by Peter A. Coates
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. 266 pp. $39.95, £26.95. ISBN 9780520249301.
Coates examines the reactions of 19th- and early-20th-century Americans to nonnative species such as starlings, gypsy moths, and eucalyptus.
The reviewer is at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA. E-mail: jgurvtch{at}life.bio.sunysb.edu

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