Mapping movements of alien bird species Date: January 12, 2017 Source: University College London Summary: A global map of alien bird species has been produced for the first time by a team of ...

Invasive alien species (IAS) pose an important threat to biodiversity, with potentially severe ecological and socio-economic impacts. The first list of IAS of Union concern includes 37 species ...

Compare that to the 2002 distribution map of cattle in the ... Is it any wonder that alien explorers would assume that they are the alpha species on earth? It makes perfect sense.

The damage these organisms and their ilk are inflicting on regions around the world puts invasive alien species ... Invacost’s data with species distribution modeling, which predicted ...

a member of “one of the world’s worst invasive alien species”. Invasive status is of course not intrinsic to a species. In 2007, the “invasive” starling joined the bottlenose dolphin and ...

Additionally, we applied a joint species distribution model to quantify the co-occurrence of native versus alien fish species that can be attributed to shared environmental responses or potentially to ...

Human activity – often through travel or global trade – is spreading these animals, plants and other organisms in new regions at an “unprecedented rate,” with 200 new alien species being ...

The authors of this initial survey, namely Arne Witt, Vladimir Hula, Kay Van Damme and local Socotran expert Ahmed Saeed Suleiman, consider that ‘more surveys are needed to determine the wider ...