Published: Nov. 22, 2023
The case of naturalization the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas), in coun-tries lying beyond its native Ponto-Caspian range is remarkable as one first instances, when scientific community early mid-19th century was fully aware non-indigenous status a particular species well need for study and monitoring this process. Based on contemporary sources, I reconstruct response European naturalists (including those that today would be called ‘citizen scientist’) to invasion describe their attitudes problem, including divergence opinion about origin means dispersal bivalve species. An analysis pa-pers English, French, German, Russian authors published between 1774 1920 has shown D. by no ‘silent’; quite opposite, it provoked an immediate reaction naturalists, agenda new invader proposed England 1838
Language: Английский