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An increasing number of scientists now agree that bioinvasion is the most immediate -- and surely the fastest-growing -- threat to plant and animal life on the planet after deforestation and breakneck development.

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Perhaps the only sure way to curb bioinvasion is to plug the gaping holes on international borders.

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"The issue isn't stopping bioinvasion, but understanding it," says Perrings.

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Like so much else in the global marketplace, the burden of bioinvasion falls unevenly across the world.

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And if the majority of experts are right, the cost of bioinvasion is only going to get worse.

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But bioinvasion has taken a quantum leap in a borderless world where billions of people and tons of goods traverse the globe in a matter of hours, making a mockery of customs inspectors and quarantines.

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Thanks to tough import laws, Australia has developed one of the best bioinvasion defenses of any nation.

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: Studying maps to prevent bioinvasion is like studying bullets to prevent homicide.

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So the new network map should give marine biologists an insight into how bioinvasion occurs and what steps they can take to tackle it.

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"With 90 percent of world trade carried by sea, the global network of merchant ships provides one of the most important modes of transportation" of intrusive species, says the study, which also estimates that bioinvasion is responsible for about $120 billion in financial losses per year.

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