Sentences with phrase «for species invasion»

With 50 ships traveling through the canal daily, swapping around 10 million tons of ballast water annually between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, it's no surprise the Suez is a hotbed for species invasion.

Not exact matches

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

Sean Ryan [email protected] A state plan to recruit road builders for the war against foreign plant species will not stop the invasion, particularly if enlistment remains voluntary.

As a hub for local Asian shipping and global transport, this island city - state is not just the world's busiest port, it's also at the greatest risk of invasion by non-native species.

Aizen says that «a coordinated approach is urgently needed to reduce the potential for transnational species invasions.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

The ugly will include the need, for example, to brace for the ever more jarring effects of extreme weather patterns, the extinction of a huge range of animal and plant species, and the invasion into new latitudes of predators and pests.

Ant invasions are a nuisance for picnickers, but for California's coastal horned lizards, the proliferation of one foreign ant species threatens their very survival.

They say the analysis provides the simplest expectation for the future distribution of marine biodiversity, showing recurring spatial patterns of high rates of species invasions coupled with local extinctions.

Lead researcher Peter Bellingham issued the following plea: «Given the strength of our evidence of the serious consequences of this invasion for biodiversity, we urge the relevant institutions in Jamaica, and international funding bodies, to prioritise a programme of control of this species.

For example, the number of native unionid species dropped from 18 to 5 in Lake St. Clair after zebra mussel invasion.

«It could make it easier for a species to invade a new area and survive, or it could inhibit invasions in other circumstances,» she said.

Disease is an evocative metaphor for alien species, but it obscures the real — and complicated — reasons why invasions occur and ecosystems change.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impaFor example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impafor instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

Alpine plants in the far north are not prepared for the invasion of competitive species from the valley.

«Impact of invasive species varies with latitude, highlighting need for biogeographic perspective on invasions.»

It's possible that when elephants are not around, the trees may actually benefit from an invasion by the bigheaded ant, because they wouldn't need to produce nectar for native species and could use the energy to grow instead.

«The rapid spread of this species has inspired biologists to study the process of invasion on a global scale,» says Helen Roy of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK.

Introgression poses a serious threat to all 14 subspecies of cutthroat trout in western North America due to widespread stocking and invasion of non-native trout into historical cutthroat trout habitats (Trotter 2008); two subspecies are now extinct, five are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and seven have been petitioned for listing.

We are developing an integrative framework for predicting invasions based on factors determining species invasiveness and community invasibility.

Invasions of introduced species may seem funny, but as a great article this week in The New Yorker makes clear for the case of Asian carp introduced in the Midwest, just because the fish may look or act funny (like the seemingly hilarious carp the fly waaay out of the water), the impacts to natural communities can be devastating.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

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.