When pets become pests: the role of the exotic pet trade in producing invasive vertebrate animals

Lockwood, Julie L, Welbourne, Dustin J, Romagosa, Christina M, Cassey, Phillip, Mandrak, Nicholas E, Strecker, Angela, Leung, Brian, Stringham, Oliver C +8 more·2019·Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

DOI 10.1002/fee.2059

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