Sentences with phrase «alien plant species»

There has been considerable media coverage in recent times in relation to the prevalence of Japanese Knotweed and other Invasive Alien Plant Species (IAPS) in building sites and in close proximity to dwellings and the risks associated with this.

Conservation and management actions will include extending the habitat into favourable adjacent areas, implementing measures to reduce the risk of fires, and removal of invasive alien plant species.

Not exact matches

He is an android planted by an alien invading colonizing species.

Invasion by Bombus terrestris also promotes the spread of alien plants, which compete with native species.

For plants, mammals, and fishes, the proportion of newly emerging alien species has remained constant during the last 150 years but the total number of alien species has increased.

Professor Dick said: «Alien plant and animal species cause environmental, economic and social damage across Europe, and their rate of invasion is set to increase in the coming years.

A coalition of agencies and other organizations has aired a proposal for a $ 200 million, five - year program to fund everything from efforts to annihilate alien species to rare - plant rescue missions by helicopter.

When alien species invade and take over communities, they may not come alone — many plant species are host to a whole suite of microorganisms that not only live in plant cells, but also in the soil surrounding the plants» roots.

«Alien plants often gain advantages in their new environment because they lack natural enemies, and in this case the lack of strong competitors amongst alpine plants may be the key to success for generalist native species,» says ecologist Ann Milbau, assistant professor at the research station Climate Impacts Research Centre in Abisko, Sweden.

For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).

It makes places uninhabitable for some plants and animals, leading to extinctions and redistribution of species, threatening food production with alien pests and diseases.

It is important to note that these impacts do not take account of ancillary stresses on species due to over-harvesting, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, alien species invasions, fire regime change, pollution (such as nitrogen deposition), or for plants the potentially beneficial effects of rising atmospheric CO2.