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| | Introduced species - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Other terms that are used sometimes interchangeably (having the same or similar meanings) with introduced are acclimatized, adventive, alien, bioinvasive, exotic, escaped, feral, foreign, invasive, non-native, naturalized, immigrant, non-indigenous, and xenobiotic. |
 | | The tendency of rails in particular to evolve flightless forms on islands has led to the disproportionate number of extinctions in that family. |
 | | The field of island restoration has developed as a field of conservation biology and ecological restoration, a great deal of which deals with the eradication of introduced species. |
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