Resource Number: 14632
Title: Invasive Species Advisory Committee - Background Paper on Systematics
Publisher: US Department of the Interior
Description: Systematics is the science that identifies and groups organisms by understanding their origins, relationships, and distributions. It is fundamental to understanding life on earth,
crops, wildlife, and diseases, and provides the scientific foundation to recognize and manage invasive species. Invasive species are a growing threat to biosecurity; human and
animal health; agricultural security and trade; environmental security; and economic health.
Last Updated: June 24, 2019
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