Killer Algae: The True Story of a Biologial Invasion

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.