Sentences with phrase «invasive species»

«The threat of invasive species is perhaps our most urgent economic and conservation challenge.»

«Among the 20 issues identified is the need to raise awareness of biosecurity across Europe and the implementation of European - wide legislation for this; the dedication of resources for the long - term management of invasive species; the development of new technology to detect new invasives, and early warning systems to alert EU states to their spread; new European - wide risk assessment methods; emergency powers to eradicate alien species once they become established; and effective communications to raise awareness of invasive species, so the public will know what to look for and how to report it.»

If you think getting rid of invasive species on land is a challenge, you haven't tried doing it in the depths of the ocean.

It also raises hope for using genetic engineering to control populations of invasive species or pests such as Asian carp in North America and disease - carrying mosquitoes throughout the world.

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

The EU must ensure sufficient funding to achieve its goal of long - term, coherent, sustainable action to manage invasive species.

Limiting reproduction is a novel strategy for an invasive species, he said.

Debates are now erupting over the benefits and ecological risks of releasing such insects into the wild — and whether gene drives could also thwart invasive species such as Asian carp and cane toads, or combat other animal - borne pathogens such as the one causing Lyme disease.

The scientists write in their paper that if an invasive species used the same pheromone as a complex of native species, the chemicals emitted by the natives might prevent the invaders from finding suitable mates.

Invasive species are considered to be among the major threats to native biodiversity in Europe.

Other implications include the movement of invasive species around the world and increased emission of greenhouse gases.

Synthetic incompatibility has applications in controlling or eradicating invasive species, crop pests and disease - carrying insects as well as preventing altered genes from escaping from genetically modified crops into other plant populations.

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

«Nonindigenous invasive species may pose the single most formidable threat of natural disaster of the 21st century,» the report's authors warn.

The traditional, hands - off concept in such areas may succeed only in wiping out native species while allowing the invasive species to grow unchecked.

Instead, they think that the deep shade which the invasive species casts is responsible for its impact on native plants — even decades after rhododendron eradication.

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

It's not quite redemption, but one of most loathed invasive species in the world — the European green crab (Carcinus maenas)-- has had a surprisingly positive effect on an ecosystem.

Given a similar «rapid response mechanism» for invasive species, nations should be able to contain the problem, thereby saving the additional money and effort it would take to deal with the situation later on.

It's one of the first studies of its type to demonstrate that reduction of an invasive species below an environmentally damaging threshold, rather than outright eradication, can have comparable benefits.

There are similar examples of both intentional and unintentional introductions of so - called invasive species all over the world.

Such biodiversity loss usually occurs on a large scale, and is due to habitat destruction, invasive species, overexploitation and climate change.

They can also be useful in predicting where non-native or invasive species may spread.

The invasive species, Cuban anoles or brown anoles, are native to Cuba and the Bahamas.

According to the study, the west Florida shelf and the entire offshore Texas coast could be on the verge of seeing dramatically high densities of lionfish, based on ocean conditions (water flow, etc.,) which help spread the invasive species and concentrate them to new areas.

It's some of the first good news in a struggle that has at times appeared almost hopeless, as this voracious, invasive species has wiped out 95 percent of native fish in some Atlantic locations.

A new study shows that the invasive species has spread not from its original home in South America but from its beachhead in the southeastern U.S., David Biello reports

«I've been studying this specific invasive species for many years and it's clear the threat it poses to our reefs and marine environment is real,» said Matthew Johnston, Ph.D., a research scientist at NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.

But an international team of scientists, lawyers and policy makerstermed the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) is working to develop a game plan for curbing the damage, which Stanford professor Harold Mooney presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last Friday.

Scientists have discovered that the rapid spread of hybridization between a native species and an invasive species of trout in the wild is strongly linked to changes in climate.

Camille Parmesan thinks humans should help even if it means creating invasive species

He and colleagues report in the journal PLOS One — the Public Library of Science — that if current climate trends continue, then 82 per cent of California's native fish could be extinct, and their native homes colonized by invasive species.

«We need something comparable for invasive species.»

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

Invasive species or successful colonists or weedy generalists — think kudzu and rats — may be spreading into new places, keeping the local species tally up, even as the planet's overall biodiversity is degraded.

The Coconut Rhino Beetle is an invasive species that has plagued Hawaii since 2013.

The nongovernment organization's stated mission is to prevent extinctions by removing invasive species from islands.

This raises significant new concerns in the effort to control this invasive species that is devastating native fish populations on the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean Sea.

Even Whole Foods has gotten onboard; in 2016 the upscale grocer added lionfish to the shelves and started promoting it as «an invasive species» in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, «far from its native waters.»

That means fishers who use store - bought shellfish as bait and consumers who toss uneaten shellfish in the water may be spreading invasive species, say the researchers, who argue that the live seafood trade needs tighter regulations to protect against this ecological threat.

«Herbivores play important role in protecting habitats from invasive species.»

«This is almost a test case of the new resolve to deal with this problem» of invasive species, says ecologist Daniel Simberloff of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

And even if you couldconvince people to eat nutria — the South American swamp rat introduced in the 1960s to clear Louisiana's Mississippi Delta waterways of another invasive species, water hyacinth — there's no way they'd be able to catch up with the population, which has already wiped out whole swaths of native greenery.

Even a single invasive species in a single river system can have staggeringly diverse effects.

«Removing invasive species is almost like hitting an island's reset button,» says Heath Packard, a spokesperson for Island Conservation.

Friends of the Earth, along with a coalition of other environmental groups, is also expressing concerns about wastewater discharge from ships, and invasive species like mollusks that could attach to ship hulls.

«The bottom line is that we should expect to see changes in the impacts of invasive species as invaders and native species evolve over time,» Morin said.

Managing invasive species is, in the end, principally a question of managing humans.

Invasive species, a subset of exotic species, usually are ecologically or economically harmful.

The movement of species to new places in the world instigates evolution in those invasive species, which increases their rate of spread and impact on native species.