Killer Algae
BBC2 9.00pm Thursday 8th February 2001

Weblinks:

www.ifremer.fr/anglais
IFREMER (Institut Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer) is the French government body responsible for the marine environment.

http://www.fisheries.nsw.gov.au/thr/species/fn-caulerpa.htm
The government of New South Wales, Australia, has a site aimed at controlling caulerpa in its waters.

http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/hcd/caulerpa.htm
The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration is a US government agency.

www.scec.sdsu.edu/CMI/CMI.html
Prof Susan Williams is based at the University of California's Coastal & Marine Institute.


Books and articles:

Caulerpa, Scientific American, Dec 1994

Algue Tueuse, Science et Vie, Dec 1997
Caulerpa, Science et Vie, Jan 2000
French-language journal.

Killer Algae
by Alexandre Meinesz, University of Chicago Press.
Extracts are online at www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/519228.html

Algae
by Linda E Graham and Lee W Wilcox, Prentice Hall.

Biological Invasions
by Mark Williamson, Chapman and Hall.

The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
by Charles S. Elton, University of Chicago.
Classic text, one of the first attempts to raise the alarm about introduced species.

Invasive Species in a Changing World
by Harold A. Mooney and Richard J. Hobbs, Island Press.

Nature out of Place
by Jason Van Driesche and Roy Van Driesche, Island Press.


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