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InvasionS
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🧑🏽‍🔬🪻Invasion Science (InvasionS) is a multidisciplinary working group of CIBIO's researchers and students focused on biological invasions.

Group Leader: @jrvicente.bsky.social

Visit our website: https://sites.google.com/biopolis.pt/invasions
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🌿 IUCN launches a public consultation to shape its Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species! A key step for international cooperation on biodiversity loss.

📅 Open until 1 Dec 2025
🔗 Learn more and find out how to participate: iucn.org/news/202509/...

#IUCN #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity
🚗 CamALIEN is on the road again!

We delivered CamALIEN to our next Living Lab partner, ESA–IPVC, and joined the “Week of Life and Earth Sciences” to present @onestop-project.eu, the Living Lab approach, and our detection tech. 👩‍🏫

#CamALIEN #LivingLabs #Portugal #especiesinvasoras
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🐚 Welcome to InvasionS Belmiro Pascoal!

Our new master’s student has been working on biodiversity, conservation, and invasive species management for several years, and he's currently studying the ecological impact and genetic patterns of benthic invasive species along the coast of Angola!
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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👉 Let's talk about Delairea odorata, also known as Cape-ivy.
🍃 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies can grow vigorously, covering shrubs and trees, impeding the germination and growth of native seeds.
🔴 It is toxic to animals and fish.
#IASinEurope #UnionConcernSpecies
November 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🌿Check out the new workflows and indicators for #IAS management proposed by @b-cubed.eu partners in South Africa
👉 B-Cubed partners researched the impact of biological invasions in South Africa
📍 They have proposed new workflows and indicators for better management of #InvasiveAlienSpecies
👀 Read more: b-cubed.eu/news/new-b-c...
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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🪱 Today's #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Platydemus manokwari, the New Guinea Flatworm.
📍 It is a versatile and adaptive predator that has few natural limiting factors.
👉 It feeds on a variety of invertebrates and land snails, potentially altering the soil food web.

#IASinEurope #UnionConcernSpecies
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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🌸 Meet Reynoutria × bohemica, the Bohemian Knotweed.
🌿 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies is a hybrid between the Japanese and Giant knotweed, inheriting their most problematic traits.
👉 Its aggressive spread outcompetes native species, and possesses the ability to damage infrastructure
#IASinEurope
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🌱 Here is Reynoutria sachalinensis, the Giant Knotweed. Very similar to the last #InvasiveAlienSpecies, the R. japonica.
🍃 R. sachalinensis's leaves are larger, and it also spreads via rhizomes.
👉 It outcompetes and overshadows other species, and can cause damage to infrastructure.
#IASinEurope
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
📢 New paper out!

Led by Rita Bastos & Cheikh Seck, with Joana Vicente, in Global Ecology and Conservation! 🌿

⚡ A BACI-like model reveals how hydropower development impacts raptor populations in NE Portugal.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

#EcologicalModelling #Hydropower #Biodiversity
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
🔥 Update!

The “Forests and Fires: What Future?” Conference will also be available online, and everyone is welcome to join!

🗓️ 3 November 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–12:30
📍 Prof. Eugénio Castro Caldas Auditorium, ESA–IPVC & Online (Teams)

💻 Join here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🔥 New paper out! Led by @cristinaglima.bsky.social and published in @biolinvasions.bsky.social 🌿

We explored how fire & landscape susceptibility shape Acacia dealbata invasion in Portugal using a STELLA dynamic model.

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

#InvasionScience #FireEcology #AcaciaDealbata
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🌿 IUCN launches a public consultation to shape its Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species! A key step for international cooperation on biodiversity loss.

📅 Open until 1 Dec 2025
🔗 Learn more and find out how to participate: iucn.org/news/202509/...

#IUCN #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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👉 Meet a new #InvasiveAlienSpecies, Reynoutria japonica, the Japanese Knotweed!
🟩 It is a rapid clonal spreader, growing vigorously and outcompeting and overshadowing other vegetation
🌱Its clonal expansion via roots (rhizomes) makes it difficult to eradicate and can even damage infrastructure
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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😉 Follow the #SELINAWorkshop taking place this week in Italy!

👌Dedicated to #sustainable use of the #environment through evidence-based decision-making, @selinaproject.bsky.social - is a @horizoneu.bsky.social initiative that started 3 years ago.

ℹ️More on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2023/03/06/r...
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🦅 Meet Pycnonotus jocosus, the Red-whiskered Bulbul!
🔵 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies may hybridise with native species, cause crop damage, and directly compete with native birds for resources
🍃 There are also concerns that it may facilitate the spread of invasive plants
#UnionConcernSpecies #IAS
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🔎 The big picture of OneSTOP comes alive in a newly released project video!
🎞️ The video offers a short overview of OneSTOP’s objectives and methodology, as well as the project’s planned results and activities.
👉 Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6E...

#IAS #BioInvasions
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🌾 New open dataset on Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass) in Portugal, led by João Gonçalves!

📊 47,661 plants mapped from UAV imagery at 63 sites under the LIFE STOP CORTADERIA project.

🔗 Access: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#InvasionScience #LIFEStopCortaderia #invasivespecies #UAVmapping #cortaderia
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🌎 Amidst #LivingData2025, we are introducing Obama nungara, the Obama Flatworm.
🪱 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies is a predator that kills and consumes native earthworms and land snails.
👉 Its introduction can potentially lead to drastic alterations in soil dynamics, impacting the health of ecosystems.
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our PI @jrvicente.bsky.social will speak at the “Forests and Fires: What Future?” Conference!

📅 3 Nov 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–12:30 (CET)
📍 ESA–IPVC, Prof. Eugénio Castro Caldas Auditorium

Join the experts to discuss the future of forests and fires! 🌳🔥

More info 👇

#Forests #Fires #Sustainability
#fogos #florestas #gestãoflorestal #sustentabilidade #incêndiosrurais #invasionscience #esaipvc | InvasionS
🔥 Junta-te a nós para debatermos sobre o futuro das florestas e dos fogos rurais! A nossa PI Joana Vicente marcará presença na Conferência “Floresta e Fogos: que futuro?” 🌲 📅 3 de novembro de 2025 ...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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👀 Our next #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Neogale vison, the American Mink.
🟢 It is a direct competitor with many native EU species that share its ecological niche, such as the European mink, Pyrenean desman, and Water vole
🪱It is also known to be a carrier of pathogens
#UnionConcernSpecies #IASinEurope
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🪸 Meet a new #InvasiveAlienSpecies, Nanozostera japonica, the Japanese Eelgrass.
🐚 It displaces native seagrass, affecting local shellfish communities.
⚪ Its faster decomposition rate compared to native seagrasses also alters the decomposer community and productivity dynamics in the tidal zone.
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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👉 Our next #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Misgurnus bipartitus, the Northern Weatherfish
🌊 It directly competes with the native protected species M. fossilis in the EU, potentially leading to its extinction and disrupting the ecosystem
🪱 It's a carrier of pathogens and may hybridise with native fish
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🔎 Today we are focusing on Mulinia lateralis, the Dwarf Surfclam.
🐚 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies, with high fecundity, has the potential to alter benthic communities and influence the food web.
#IASinEurope #BioInvasions #UnionConcernSpecies
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📢@bmd-project.eu will host a
workshop developing and discussing questions about biodiversity data and how addressing these might enable or enhance natural site management practices and decision-making.
🔗 Learn more and register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💚 BMD will host an online User Story Workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CEST). ➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point.
✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🚀Last month, along with #TrIAS and @b-cubed.eu, we published a policy brief on how Belgium has leveraged @gbif.org to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.
🔎 Read more: lnkd.in/d8xX9UAJ
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌱 The 17th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions 2025 took place from 2 to 5 September in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was co-hosted by OneSTOP’s partner, Lincoln University (NZ).
🔗 Read more on: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop...
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM