Rapid spread of an invasive snail in South America: the giant African snail, Achatina fulica, in Brasil

By S. Thiengo, F. Faraco, N. C. Salgado, R. Cowie, Monica A. Fernandez. Biological Invasions, 2007

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Insect Science

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In Ecology

1. Elena Tricarico
2. Giuseppe Mazza
3. Francesca Gherardi
4. James W. Smith
5. R. T. Dillon
6. D. Robinson
7. P. Genovesi
8. R. Cowie

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. James W. Smith
2. R. Cowie
3. R. T. Dillon
4. D. Robinson
5. Francesca Gherardi

In Insect Science

1. James W. Smith
2. R. T. Dillon
3. D. Robinson
4. P. Genovesi
5. R. Cowie
6. Francesca Gherardi
7. M. Mckinney
8. Julian D. Olden

Citations in the corpus

• Biological invaders are threats to human health: an overview (2014, background): “fulica South American inhabitants (THIENGO et al. 2007), being hosts of A.”
• Alien Non-Marine Snails and Slugs of Priority Quarantine Importance in the United States: A Preliminary Risk Assessment (2009, background): “Larger species are favored for deliberate introductions (Mead 1979, Smith 2005, Thiengo et al. 2007) but for inadvertent introductions smaller species have a greater chance of evading quarantine (Cowie and Robinson 2003).”