invasive species

"It's far easier, more cost-effective, to prevent an invasive species from getting in than dealing with it after it arrives, " she said.

Dr. LESKEY: Well, I think you sort of touched on this in that this is an invasive species.

California has spent millions of dollars trying to get rid of the worst invasive species.

So far, more than 600 invasive species have been counted, almost 5 per cent of the total marine creatures in the Mediterranean.

So for a few minutes, let's put aside our usual feelings about invasive species, and just talk about some really cool animals.

When turned loose with no competition, invasive species can run amok in an ecosystem and send a park's native residents toward extinction.

Its survival has been threatened by the appearance of another plant, an invasive species called European beachgrass.

"The costs of invasive species are so high, literally hundreds ofbillions of dollars a year, " Cmar says.

McKinley sees the group's continuing research as vital to a reasoned approach to mitigating the effects of pollution and invasive species.

As a major point of entry to the United States, New York is where many of North America's invasive species first arrived.

In the words of Charles O'Neill, coordinator of the Cornell Invasive Species Program, hogweed is like "Queen Anne's lace with an attitude. "

Another key index is the rise of invasive species traveling in a globalized world via ship ballasts, air travel and old-fashioned smuggling.

Efforts are also being made to prevent the spread of invasive species through the taking on and discharging of ships' ballast water.

California is cracking down on invasive species, and that could have a big impact on national regulations due out later this year.

They also have to determine how native species of ants are coexisting in such close quarters with invasive species.

The team of European scientists called on governments to tighten controls on international trade that involved potentially invasive species.

Therefore, a further study of the distributions and controlling of invasive species is very essential.

Invasive species is being a significant factor which impacting our native nature resource, agriculture, stockbreeding and fish culture.

Factors in this loss include commercial over-harvesting, pollution, competition from invasive species and habitat destruction.

We suggest that these five families should be focused on, in future monitoring programs for risk assessment of invasive species.

But other factors have also had an impact: habitat loss, pollution, disease and invasive species.

Alien invasive species can cause huge economic loss in agricultural and forestry production, and threaten biodiversity and human health.

The online database keeps track of trends in pollinator populations that show the effects of climate change, pollution or invasive species.

Stolzenburg says the islands essentially serve as metaphors for how the world's invasive species can irreparably alter fragile ecosystems.

And for two of the three plant species, the invasive species were doing a comparable job to the native pollinators.

Like invasive species, they create "silent forests" that are devoid of wildlife, undergrowth and water.

Alien invasive species have become a serious environmental issue throughout the world.

Invasive species can decrease biodiversity and drive resident species to the brink of extinction.

Roadsides are optimal growing sites for exotic invasive species that out-compete native vegetation.

The tourists are partly responsible for invasive species that threaten endemic wildlife.

Other consequences could include the spread of invasive species and infectious diseases, it said.

Evidently, human activity enables invasive species to get established in any kind of ecosystem.

When alien invasive species arrived in a new environment, it spread very quickly, and eventually it is difficult to control.

Perhaps the starkest botch has been their inability or unwillingness to control the spread of invasive species.

Invasive species aren't just exotic animals, scary snakes or annoying insects.

The biodiversity and the threats from exotic, invasive species.

A recent study has revealed that urbanization decimates native plant life, and replaces it with invasive species.

In fact, the answer to this invasive species problem may lie on the dinner table.

Time To Stop Worrying About Invasive Species?

About half of all invasive species are moved by accident, such as insects that travel on your muddy shoes when you fly home from a holiday.

they are regarded as an invasive species and have few natural enemies to check their numbers.

Invasive species contain plant, bacterium, vermin and so on. The diffuse ways are multifarious and impossible to defend effectively.

Of top 25 institutions publishing articles on invasive species of forest, 20 were from USA, but none from China.

I'm talking about the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive species from Asia.

Recently this alien invasive species has been introduced in China and threatened the agricultural production.

Argentine ants, which live in enormous "supercolonies" and are considered an invasive species.

While most invasive species are not commonly regarded as edible food, that is mostly a matter of marketing, experts say.

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In Japan, the WTO ruled against them for refusing imports of fruit products that carry dangerous invasive species.

Buckthorn, garlic mustard and many other invasive species do not pose as big a threat as some scientists think, says ecologist Mark Davis

Invasive species have been sneaking into North America since Europeans arrived on the continent, and many got established long before

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Management strategies for invasive species in the United States

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Damaging characters and spread mechanism of alien invasive species in Guangxi province

National Management Strategy for the Exotic Invasive Species

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Indirect Economic Loss Evaluation of Effect of Alien Invasive Species on Forest Ecological System

Phenotypic plasticity in response to soil nutrients in the invasive species Alternanthera philoxeroides

Information Management System for Invasive Species

Main Invasive Species and Their Control Strategies in Zhejiang Province

Review on Ecological Studies on Three Invasive Species of European Genus Solidago

Preliminary Discussion on Alien Invasive Species on Hainan Island

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Fundamentals of invasive species biology and ecology

Assessment of Economic Damage From Alien Invasive Species

Invasive Species in Wetland Ecosystems, China

Harm and Control Strategy of Alien Invasive Species in Jilin Province

Legal Definition on Alien Invasive Species

The Risk of Alien Invasive Species and the Solutions

Valuation of Indirect Economic Loss of Alien Invasive Species on Wetland Ecosystem

Principle of International Law and It's Implementing to Prevent Alien Invasive Species

Alert information system of alien invasive species of China

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Alien invasive species in China: their damages and management strategies

The distribution and introduction pathway of alien invasive species in China

The present situation and control strategies of invasive species in China

The distributions and damages of invasive species in China

Forest Invasive Species and Management in China

The Damage of Major Adventitious Invasive Species in our Country and Countermeasure for Control