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Not a glowing endorsement by someone in the field https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2330107179?book_show_a...

"Someone in the field"?

I'm sorry but an anonymous comment on good reads, should not hold the same weight as a book that references academic papers.

In any case it isn't as black and white as "Invasive = Bad" one doesn't need to look far for that evidence.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-potential-conserva...

https://spartina.org/project_documents/revegetation_program/...

I'm not really commenting on the thesis of the book, but pointing out what seemed like a valid criticism of the book overall. After skimming a few articles on the subject [1] it seem like the reviewer is not out of line with scientific consensus on the example he points out.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&as_yl...

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