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The enormous increase in numbers of a living organism: a flu virus, the prickly pear, the grey squirrel; ‘the bursting out from control of forces that were previously held in restraint by other forces’ (C. Elton1938, 2000).
Subjects: Earth Sciences and Geography.
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