Comparing Invasive Networks: Cultural and Political Biographies of Invasive SpeciesFootnote^*

* Some of the articles assembled in this special issue were originally part of sessions organized for the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in 2003. The specific research in this article was made possible by the support of the National Science Foundation (grant #0351037). Other support came from the American Institute of Indian Studies and The Ohio State University. Special thanks go to Hanwant Singh Rathore at the Lok Hit Pashu Palak Sansthan in Sadri, India; to Ilse Köhler‐Rollefson at the League for Pastoral Peoples, Ober‐Ramstadt, Germany; and to S. M. Mohnot at the School for Desert Sciences, Jodhpur, India. I also thank the foresters and residents of Sadri and Mandigarh.

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