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Arthropod eradications are going up with globalisation - what can we do to fight back ? Understanding how populations of invasive species operate during the invasion process can help us to devise intelligent responses, including eradication where this is warranted and feasible.
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The economic, environmental and social cost of incursions of unwanted organisms is rising but there is no loss of previous pest problems, so the total burden of pests on food production is building.
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This page is a summary of: Eradication of Invading Insect Populations: From Concepts to Applications, Annual Review of Entomology, March 2016, Annual Reviews,
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-010715-023809.
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