Science news articles about 'invasive alien species'

... freely accessible web portal at http://www.europe-aliens.org and the DAISIE "Handbook ... number and impacts of harmful alien species (also called invasive alien species) in Europe has been underestimated ...

While the implications of climate change for biodiversity have been widely recognised, the insidious effect of invasive alien species (IAS) on global biodiversity stays under the radar...

... loss or fragmentation, especially given the predictions that climate change will simultaneously promote the expansion of invasive alien species and greater extinction rates in others," he says.

... short, grazed lawns or bare ground." Invasive species can cause large-scale changes ... "meltdown". As a result, control or eradication of invasive alien species is widely undertaken. However, important ...

... estimates indicate that the monetary cost of these invasive alien species in Europe amounts to at least €10 billion per year, yet for 90% of species almost nothing is known of their impacts. Recent ...

... legal protection under national or international law. Agricultural development, logging, invasive alien species, and unsustainable hunting and trapping are the main threats to bird species and IBAs ...

Jamaica and four other Caribbean countries have been granted US$1.7 million to reduce the biodiversity threat of invasive alien species.

... by 2030 - through fishing, pollution, diseases, invasive alien species, and coral bleaching due to climate change. Current trends on land and in the oceans demonstrate the severe ...

... sites (for example, wildlife viewing areas), increasing the risk of spreading invasive alien species." It also notes that "researchers may pose a particular risk to biodiversity because they have ...

... very severe;" mammal, fish, and bird species across the country are under increasing threat; ... declining, and the number of newly discovered invasive alien species shows "a tremendous upward trend," ...