Alexandre Meinesz is a professor of biology at the University of Nice and a member of various scientific committees on the environment. Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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A Choice 2000 Outstanding Academic Title Accidentally flushed into the Mediterranean by the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, the aquarium plant "Caulerpa taxifolia" flourished where no one thought it could survive. "Killer Algae" tells the story of the invasion that followed, and the bureaucratic delays that allowed the plant to spread from a patch that could have been hand-weeded-when author Alexandre Meinesz first discovered it-to a vast carpet now choking more than 10,000 acres of Mediterranean coastline.

Résumé
This text presents the biological and political horror story of the algae in the Mediterranean. This work - part detective story and part bureaucratic object lesson - presents a classic case of a devastating ecological invasion and how "not" to deal with it.

Contenu
From the discovery of the alga in Monaco to its arrival in France; the alga grows - and the polemic begins; "Caulerpa Taxifolia", superstar; the stakeholders squabble - and the alga spreads; research progresses - and the polemic persists; Chiaroscuro - 1997-1998; the three lessons of "Caulerpa". Appendices: the biology of "Caulerpa taxifolia" as known in 1991; chronology of a heralded invasion. (Part contents).