Sentences with phrase «species invasions»

His work has included identifying key biodiversity areas, setting landscape - scale conservation priorities, assessing impacts of landscape modification and predicting patterns of species invasion.

A space - age species invasion could damage not just alien organisms, but also the opportunity to study them properly.

And, Sturtevant adds, terms such as «GDP» and «urbanization» should be fleshed out to include the specific human activities that drive exotic species invasions in a given region.

There are many actions which can be taken to reduce, but not eliminate, the risk of alien species invasions, such as the treatment of ballast water in cargo ships and wood products, strict quarantine applied to crop and horticultural products, and embargos on the trade and deliberate introduction of known invader species.

Non-native species invasions are an increasing concern in marine ecosystems around the world.

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.

I have recently moved to the University of Hull to work with Isabella Capellini on a NERC funded project that aims to understand how the life histories of vertebrates influence the success of species invasions at the different stages of introduction, establishment and spread.

«It's climate change, it's hazardous fuel buildup, it's nonnative species invasions, it's insect infestations.

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

Even with human - induced species invasions, there is no species capable of colonising all of Earth's biomes — not even the mighty cockroach.

«New alien species invasions still rising globally.»

Until now, conservationists have pointed to habitat loss, direct overexploitation, and species invasions as the chief hazards to species survival, says Thomas.

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.

Species invasions come at a high cost.

[7] The maintenance of biodiversity is recognized as a way of generally stabilizing ecosystems and their services through mechanisms such as functional compensation and reduced susceptibility to foreign species invasions.

The main result: humans have caused a net increase in plant species richness across two - thirds of the terrestrial biosphere, mostly by facilitating species invasions.

Human - assisted species invasions of pests, competitors and predators are rising exponentially, and over-exploitation of fisheries, and forest animals for bush meat, to the point of collapse, continues to be the rule rather than the exception.

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

There was a «Great Acceleration» of population, of carbon emissions, of species invasions and extinctions, of earth moving, of the production of concrete, plastics and metals.

That can mean early warnings of these species invasions while you still have the time to control or contain them before they are too abundant for that to be feasible.»

Conservation is, by definition, about maintaining the status quo, yet this may no longer be possible, given that pollution, climate change, exotic species invasions, extinctions and land fragmentation are altering almost every ecosystem on the planet.

Sax, D.F. and Gaines, S.D., Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands, in In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction,.

Broad evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, environmental history, and other disciplines suggests that direct human alteration of terrestrial ecosystems by hunting, foraging, land clearing, agriculture, and other activities has been profound in some regions at least since the late Pleistocene, with long - term impacts from forest clearing, increased fire frequencies, megafaunal extinctions, species invasions, soil erosion, and others (13, 14).