Biological invasions
Global hot spots of biological invasions: evaluating options for ballast-water management
... Biological invasions on the network were simulated 1000 times for each scenario, with the following 10 ports serving as hypothetical sources for invasions of the other ports in the global network: ...
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Marine Species Introduced on the French Channel Atlantic Coasts: A Review of Main Biological Invasions and Impacts
... of biological invasions include at the same time impacts on the environ- ment, the various compartments of the food webs (biotic interactions: competition, predation, parasitism, dis- eases, ...the ...
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Alien Futures: : What is on the horizon for biological invasions?
... Horizon scanning is a systematic process to identify and prioritize future threats and opportunities in order to inform strategy and policy (Sutherland, Fleishman, Mascia, Pretty, & Rudd, 2011; Sutherland & ...
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Ant Diversity, From Local to Global Scales: Effects of Environmental Conditions, Community Structure and Biological Invasions.
... This yielded a general equation which underestimated the generic diversity for each region (as it included poorly known regions). We then estimated the difference betwee[r] ...
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Ecological consequences of biological invasions: three invertebrate case studies in the north-eastern Baltic Sea
... In this paper the population dynamics and ecological impacts of three established alien species the cirriped Balanus improvisus Darwin, the polychaete Marenzelle- ria neglecta (Sikorski and Bick sp. nov.) and the cla- ...
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Simulations and Modelling for Biological Invasions
... Pragmatic IBMs remain a useful option for modelling plant invasions (Travis et al. 2011; Murphy, Johnson, and Viard 2016; Xiao et al. 2016). Animal invasion modelling using IBMs became more prevalent later, ...
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Rapid evolution of dispersal ability makes biological invasions faster and more variable
... replicated invasions of the bean beetle Callosobruchus maculatus across homogeneous experimental ...replicated invasions: after 10 generations of range expansion, invasions subject to spatial sorting ...
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Development of alien and invasive taxa lists for regulation of biological invasions in South Africa
... on Biological Diversity (CBD 2002) considers invasive alien species (IAS) as a global concern because of their negative impact on biodiversity, which can also affect ecosystem services and human well-being ...
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Stakeholders’ perceptions of plant invasions in Galicia, Spain
... The perceptions, knowledge and values of stakeholders are essential for effective implementation and support of policies against biological invasions. In this study we focus on deliberate introduction ...
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Multiple uprising invasions of Pelophylax water frogs, potentially inducing a new hybridogenetic complex
... This situation provides a unique opportunity to characterize a new invasion of Pelophylax frogs in statu nas- cendi. To this end, we conducted a multilocus genetic survey in order to (1) determine the nature of expanding ...
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A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions
... Exotic invasions can significantly alter the structure, function, and services of ecosystems (Vitousek et ...of biological invasions at macroscales or across scales (Pauchard and Shea ...
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Reimagining invasions: The social and cultural impacts of Prosopis on pastoralists in southern Afar, Ethiopia
... of biological invasions are clearly conceptualised and there is growing evidence on the economic benefits and costs, the social and cultural dimensions remain poorly ...that biological ...
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Hitting the right target: Taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions
... techniques, classical (alpha) taxonomy is still useful and necessary in the 21st century. It is unlikely to lose this pos- ition since biology, especially biodiversity science, will always need taxonomists to do ‘real’ ...
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A multi-scale modelling framework to guide management of plant invasions in a transboundary context
... concerns, biological invasions are a very special case, and several particular- ities of the phenomenon need to be taken into consider- ation before addressing ...
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Life histories, dispersal, invasions, and global change: progress and prospects in New Zealand ecology, 1989–2029
... biosecurity, biological invasions are continuing, driven by increased trade and lags in ...use, invasions, and global climate change at a time when human food supplies and economies are coming under ...
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Region-specific patterns and drivers of macroscale forest plant invasions
... Our analyses also confirmed the need for considering greater complexity when investigating macroscale invasions. Two levels of complexity are straightforward to address. First, our study accounted only for ...
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Dimension of Skanderbeg’s relations with the Holy See in the face of Ottoman invasions
... So, while on one side he congratulated George Kastrioti about the heroic war fought against the Turks, on the other hand, he ordered a part of his military fleet to [r] ...
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Dual Defend: Identification of Invasions in Multi-Layer Web Applications
... We bestowed associate intrusion detection system that builds models of ancient behaviour for multitier net applications from each front-end net (HTTP) requests and [r] ...
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Efficacy of NaCl brine for treatment of ballast water against freshwater invasions
... Zooplankton can be transported and released in large numbers through ships’ ballast water. Choi et al. (2005) found the abundance of zooplankton on bulk carriers in San Francisco Bay averaged 374 individuals m -3 in ...
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Local administration in northern Chekiang and the response to the pirate invasions of 1553-1556
... the invasions stemmed from the nature of the relationship between the overseas traders and those who were powerful in internal trade; and that Chia-hsing society and economy were involved in the evolution of that ...
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