Gaps in Border Controls Are Related to Quarantine Alien Insect Invasions in Europe

Steven James Bacon; Sven Bacher; Alexandre Aebi

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047689

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Gaps in Border Controls Are Related to Quarantine Alien Insect Invasions in Europe

Steven James Bacon ,

* E-mail: sj_bacon@hotmail.com

Affiliation Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART, Zürich, Switzerland
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Sven Bacher,

Affiliation Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Alexandre Aebi

Current address: Laboratoire de Biologie du Sol, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Affiliation Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Agroscope Reckenholz-Tänikon ART, Zürich, Switzerland
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Gaps in Border Controls Are Related to Quarantine Alien Insect Invasions in Europe

Steven James Bacon,
Sven Bacher,
Alexandre Aebi

Published: October 24, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047689

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Sven Bacher

Competing interests declared: I'm a co-author of the paper

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