@novelecology.bsky.social
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Climate niche analysis predicts 2,554 potential new alien vascular plant species could invade the Arctic, emphasising urgent need for biosecurity and monitoring under climate change.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Climate niche analysis predicts 2,554 potential new alien vascular plant species could invade the Arctic, emphasising urgent need for biosecurity and monitoring under climate change.
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...
@liverpooluni.bsky.social
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Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Cooperation between ecologists and historians has allowed a robust reconstruction of the historical introduction of the Italian crayfish, Austropotamobius fulcisianus, to Spain in the late-16th century
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ebdonana.bsky.social @um.es
New OA paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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📣📣 We would like to introduce the bi-annual #InvasionsNewsletter, an open-access digital magazine and a collaborative effort of individuals, networks, and organizations from around the world! You can access it here:
joom.ag/mIjd
joom.ag/mIjd
Invasions Newsletter
safeguarding island havens. new research. management stories. policy updates.
joom.ag
May 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
📣📣 We would like to introduce the bi-annual #InvasionsNewsletter, an open-access digital magazine and a collaborative effort of individuals, networks, and organizations from around the world! You can access it here:
joom.ag/mIjd
joom.ag/mIjd
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Read all about it! The Aliens Newsletter is out led by @ananovoaperez.bsky.social and @scanavan.bsky.social
Find the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Find the newsletter here: viewer.joomag.com/invasions-ne...
Find the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Find the newsletter here: viewer.joomag.com/invasions-ne...
June 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Read all about it! The Aliens Newsletter is out led by @ananovoaperez.bsky.social and @scanavan.bsky.social
Find the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Find the newsletter here: viewer.joomag.com/invasions-ne...
Find the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Find the newsletter here: viewer.joomag.com/invasions-ne...
Fast evolution in Chicago's chipmunks and voles
The Rodents of Chicago Are Evolving in Real Time, Scientists Say
The rats aren’t what they used to be.
www.popularmechanics.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Fast evolution in Chicago's chipmunks and voles
Studies say human impact makes wildlife more similar globally but different locally. How?
🔄 Exchange of foreign species
🟰 Nearby places start off similar, so divergence is obvious
🔎 Local changes are studied in more detail
🎲 Ecological fallout is more random on small scales
‼️ This varies by context
🔄 Exchange of foreign species
🟰 Nearby places start off similar, so divergence is obvious
🔎 Local changes are studied in more detail
🎲 Ecological fallout is more random on small scales
‼️ This varies by context
A new study by François Keck et al. reveals that human pressures reshape #biodiversity, but don’t always lead to global homogenization. Instead, impacts vary by scale, ecosystem, and type of disturbance. 🌍🧪
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecos...
www.nature.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Studies say human impact makes wildlife more similar globally but different locally. How?
🔄 Exchange of foreign species
🟰 Nearby places start off similar, so divergence is obvious
🔎 Local changes are studied in more detail
🎲 Ecological fallout is more random on small scales
‼️ This varies by context
🔄 Exchange of foreign species
🟰 Nearby places start off similar, so divergence is obvious
🔎 Local changes are studied in more detail
🎲 Ecological fallout is more random on small scales
‼️ This varies by context
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Our ( @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social ) inventory of Bermuda's flora has been published by
@biolinvasions.bsky.social . Spoiler alert - less than 10% of the list are native plants. Read it here: rdcu.be/edCZ7 🌺
@biolinvasions.bsky.social . Spoiler alert - less than 10% of the list are native plants. Read it here: rdcu.be/edCZ7 🌺
The introduced and invasive flora of Bermuda
rdcu.be
March 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Our ( @waynedawsoneco.bsky.social ) inventory of Bermuda's flora has been published by
@biolinvasions.bsky.social . Spoiler alert - less than 10% of the list are native plants. Read it here: rdcu.be/edCZ7 🌺
@biolinvasions.bsky.social . Spoiler alert - less than 10% of the list are native plants. Read it here: rdcu.be/edCZ7 🌺
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Invasive signal crayfish in Portugal show major intrapopulation differences as bolder, larger individuals at the invasion front consume more prey, alter ecosystems, and spread faster.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Intrapopulation differences in biological traits and impacts in a highly invasive freshwater species
Individual variation assessments are essential to better understand population and community dynamics, as well ecosystem functioning. Although researchers have long recognized this aspect, only recent...
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Invasive signal crayfish in Portugal show major intrapopulation differences as bolder, larger individuals at the invasion front consume more prey, alter ecosystems, and spread faster.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
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Non-native Pacific oyster reefs in Australian mangrove estuaries boost biodiversity, supporting fisheries species, but also facilitate other invasive species, highlighting complex ecological trade-offs.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Mangrove-associated Pacific oysters (Magallana gigas) influence estuarine biodiversity
Estuarine ecosystems are often characterised by endemic foundation organisms which facilitate ecosystem interactions and processes established over millennia. Introduction of non-native foundation spe...
doi.org
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Non-native Pacific oyster reefs in Australian mangrove estuaries boost biodiversity, supporting fisheries species, but also facilitate other invasive species, highlighting complex ecological trade-offs.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Includes an article (Pitt et al) suggesting:
🪺 urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than forest blue tits
🏙️ due to habitat difficulties, not adaptation
🐥 they still overestimate how many young they can support
Cities can be tough places to raise chicks!
#urbanecology #urbanwildlife #urbanbirds
🪺 urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than forest blue tits
🏙️ due to habitat difficulties, not adaptation
🐥 they still overestimate how many young they can support
Cities can be tough places to raise chicks!
#urbanecology #urbanwildlife #urbanbirds
Our March issue is live. 🦋 buff.ly/msasOFN
This issue is dedicated to our latest Special Feature, "Intraspecific Variation in Evolution and Ecology".
📸 : Juliano Morimoto
This issue is dedicated to our latest Special Feature, "Intraspecific Variation in Evolution and Ecology".
📸 : Juliano Morimoto
March 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Includes an article (Pitt et al) suggesting:
🪺 urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than forest blue tits
🏙️ due to habitat difficulties, not adaptation
🐥 they still overestimate how many young they can support
Cities can be tough places to raise chicks!
#urbanecology #urbanwildlife #urbanbirds
🪺 urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than forest blue tits
🏙️ due to habitat difficulties, not adaptation
🐥 they still overestimate how many young they can support
Cities can be tough places to raise chicks!
#urbanecology #urbanwildlife #urbanbirds
Introduced trees can change the very nature of a forest. With black cherry and black locust trees in 🇵🇱:
🔻 Recovery of dominant oak 🌳 and pine 🌲 suppressed
🔺 Shade-tolerant, nitrogen-loving plants more common 🌱
🔺 Other introduced species more common 🌿
@neobiota.pensoft.net #invasionecology
🔻 Recovery of dominant oak 🌳 and pine 🌲 suppressed
🔺 Shade-tolerant, nitrogen-loving plants more common 🌱
🔺 Other introduced species more common 🌿
@neobiota.pensoft.net #invasionecology
Invasive Prunus serotina vs. Robinia pseudoacacia: How does temperate forest natural regeneration respond to their quantity?
Invasive trees negatively impact forests, by making the vegetation more homogeneous when invaders are present than when they are absent. Here, we aim to more deeply understand the effects of invasive ...
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Introduced trees can change the very nature of a forest. With black cherry and black locust trees in 🇵🇱:
🔻 Recovery of dominant oak 🌳 and pine 🌲 suppressed
🔺 Shade-tolerant, nitrogen-loving plants more common 🌱
🔺 Other introduced species more common 🌿
@neobiota.pensoft.net #invasionecology
🔻 Recovery of dominant oak 🌳 and pine 🌲 suppressed
🔺 Shade-tolerant, nitrogen-loving plants more common 🌱
🔺 Other introduced species more common 🌿
@neobiota.pensoft.net #invasionecology
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Non-native species are driving a global loss of freshwater fish beta-diversity, reshaping ecosystems and threatening biodiversity.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
Non-native species drive the global loss of freshwater fish beta-diversity
Freshwater ecosystems are facing mounting challenges. The widespread introduction of non-native species, for example, has resulted in the loss of native species and the substantial reconfiguration of ...
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Non-native species are driving a global loss of freshwater fish beta-diversity, reshaping ecosystems and threatening biodiversity.
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
doi.org/10.3897/neob...
As it's #WorldWildlifeDay, here's a classic article celebrating overlooked wildlife and the huge difference people can make for the little things
#worldwildlifeday2025 #gammarus #japanwildlife #wildlifewriting #naturewriting #synanthropy
#worldwildlifeday2025 #gammarus #japanwildlife #wildlifewriting #naturewriting #synanthropy
The Shrine Shrimp and its Thousand-Year Protection
One thousand, two hundred and fifteen years ago, upon the slope of a volcano in the Aomori prefecture of Japan, a shrine was built. Beside that shrine, a small pool was made from a natural spring, …
novelecology.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As it's #WorldWildlifeDay, here's a classic article celebrating overlooked wildlife and the huge difference people can make for the little things
#worldwildlifeday2025 #gammarus #japanwildlife #wildlifewriting #naturewriting #synanthropy
#worldwildlifeday2025 #gammarus #japanwildlife #wildlifewriting #naturewriting #synanthropy
🦐 A non-native amphipod is:
⏩ quicker to grab prey
⚔️ more likely to fend off theft
than a native competitor
This is the kind of experiment that picks out the details underpinning ecological change 🔬
⏩ quicker to grab prey
⚔️ more likely to fend off theft
than a native competitor
This is the kind of experiment that picks out the details underpinning ecological change 🔬
Great new paper on the role of behaviour in invasions. This method holds lots of potential for the assessment of competitive behaviour.
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1419...
#bioinvasions
neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1419...
#bioinvasions
March 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🦐 A non-native amphipod is:
⏩ quicker to grab prey
⚔️ more likely to fend off theft
than a native competitor
This is the kind of experiment that picks out the details underpinning ecological change 🔬
⏩ quicker to grab prey
⚔️ more likely to fend off theft
than a native competitor
This is the kind of experiment that picks out the details underpinning ecological change 🔬
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Australian redclaw have sent wildlife authorities into damage control after the crayfish were found in the wild in the US state of Texas. #news #abc #fishef="/hashtag/fishing" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fishing #aquaculture #industry #invasive #species #recreational #fish #native
Australian redclaw crayfish go feral in US waterways
Australian redclaw have sent wildlife authorities into damage control after the crayfish were found in the wild in the US state of Texas. #news #abc #fishing #aquaculture #industry #invasive #species #recreational #fish #native
www.abc.net.au
March 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Australian redclaw have sent wildlife authorities into damage control after the crayfish were found in the wild in the US state of Texas. #news #abc #fishef="/hashtag/fishing" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fishing #aquaculture #industry #invasive #species #recreational #fish #native
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"[Quagga mussels] are such efficient filter feeders that fewer than every two weeks the entire volume of Lake Michigan is filtered by them, resulting in clear, blue water that’s beautiful but inhospitable for many lake species."
www.wpr.org/environment/...
www.wpr.org/environment/...
Quadrillions of invasive mussels are damaging the Great Lakes, documentary shows
Since the late 1990s, the lake whitefish population has declined as much as 80 percent in parts of the Great Lakes. The culprit is a tiny invasive species called the quagga mussel.
www.wpr.org
March 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
"[Quagga mussels] are such efficient filter feeders that fewer than every two weeks the entire volume of Lake Michigan is filtered by them, resulting in clear, blue water that’s beautiful but inhospitable for many lake species."
www.wpr.org/environment/...
www.wpr.org/environment/...
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Super exciting news - two of our Ex-comm members just published a review paper in collaboration with Ricciardi lab (@ecoinvasions.bsky.social) at McGill and the Mandrak lab at UofT (@uoft.bsky.social).
Check it out and learn about invasive Goldfish in North America
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Check it out and learn about invasive Goldfish in North America
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
The rise of goldfishes in North America
ABSTRACT. Goldfish Carassius auratus is a longstanding global invader that has entered a new phase in its invasion history, spreading into new geographical
academic.oup.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Super exciting news - two of our Ex-comm members just published a review paper in collaboration with Ricciardi lab (@ecoinvasions.bsky.social) at McGill and the Mandrak lab at UofT (@uoft.bsky.social).
Check it out and learn about invasive Goldfish in North America
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
Check it out and learn about invasive Goldfish in North America
academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...
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This interesting paper shows native octopus prey on invasive Atlantic blue crabs in the Mediterranean. Limiting fishing pressure on the octopus and supporting fisheries for the crab could benefit people and the environment.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
##bioinvasions #marineinvasions
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
##bioinvasions #marineinvasions
First Records of Wild Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) Preying on Adult Invasive Blue Crabs (Callinectes sapidus)
The invasive Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is spreading rapidly in the Mediterranean, threatening native ecosystems due to a lack of natural predators. This study documents, for the first ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This interesting paper shows native octopus prey on invasive Atlantic blue crabs in the Mediterranean. Limiting fishing pressure on the octopus and supporting fisheries for the crab could benefit people and the environment.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
##bioinvasions #marineinvasions
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
##bioinvasions #marineinvasions
A neat example of ecological dependence on people:
🐍🏠 #Nonnative #Aesculapian snakes use the warmth of homes and compost heaps to survive the Welsh climate
🐍🏠 #Nonnative #Aesculapian snakes use the warmth of homes and compost heaps to survive the Welsh climate
A reliance on human habitats is key to the success of an introduced predatory reptile
Understanding the success of animals in novel environments is increasingly important as human-mediated introductions continue to move species far beyond their natural ranges. Alongside these introduct...
journals.plos.org
February 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A neat example of ecological dependence on people:
🐍🏠 #Nonnative #Aesculapian snakes use the warmth of homes and compost heaps to survive the Welsh climate
🐍🏠 #Nonnative #Aesculapian snakes use the warmth of homes and compost heaps to survive the Welsh climate
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Lower ungulate population density in rainforests under anthropogenic influences 🦌
Highlights how threats such as
👉Poaching 📉
👉Predation by domestic dogs 🐕
👉Disease transmission 🧪
👉Disturbance by wild boar 🐗
...may potentially lead to species extinction 🌏
🔗 https://buff.ly/4b0tJ5f
Highlights how threats such as
👉Poaching 📉
👉Predation by domestic dogs 🐕
👉Disease transmission 🧪
👉Disturbance by wild boar 🐗
...may potentially lead to species extinction 🌏
🔗 https://buff.ly/4b0tJ5f
February 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lower ungulate population density in rainforests under anthropogenic influences 🦌
Highlights how threats such as
👉Poaching 📉
👉Predation by domestic dogs 🐕
👉Disease transmission 🧪
👉Disturbance by wild boar 🐗
...may potentially lead to species extinction 🌏
🔗 https://buff.ly/4b0tJ5f
Highlights how threats such as
👉Poaching 📉
👉Predation by domestic dogs 🐕
👉Disease transmission 🧪
👉Disturbance by wild boar 🐗
...may potentially lead to species extinction 🌏
🔗 https://buff.ly/4b0tJ5f
Reading about 'Africanised' honeybee impacts in South America. This study about a macaw species seemed interesting. Kinda specific though so maybe I won't-
HOLD ON, WHAT'S THIS?
HOLD ON, WHAT'S THIS?
February 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reading about 'Africanised' honeybee impacts in South America. This study about a macaw species seemed interesting. Kinda specific though so maybe I won't-
HOLD ON, WHAT'S THIS?
HOLD ON, WHAT'S THIS?
🦟 Once thought to have evolved on London's Tube, the #UndergroundMosquito may be a product of Ancient Egypt
From @nature.com
#UrbanEvolution #synurban #urbanecology #Culexpipiens
From @nature.com
#UrbanEvolution #synurban #urbanecology #Culexpipiens
‘London Underground’ mosquito has surprisingly ancient origins
Once thought to have evolved inside the Tube network, a tunnel-dwelling mosquito might actually have emerged thousands of years ago in Egypt.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🦟 Once thought to have evolved on London's Tube, the #UndergroundMosquito may be a product of Ancient Egypt
From @nature.com
#UrbanEvolution #synurban #urbanecology #Culexpipiens
From @nature.com
#UrbanEvolution #synurban #urbanecology #Culexpipiens
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🐟 @griffithuniversity.bsky.social has tracked two invasive fish species – the Mozambique and spotted tilapia – and found them established in the Mitchell River catchment in Northern Queensland, which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria
Aggressive invasive fish species found moving closer to Gulf of Carpentaria
buff.ly
January 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
🐟 @griffithuniversity.bsky.social has tracked two invasive fish species – the Mozambique and spotted tilapia – and found them established in the Mitchell River catchment in Northern Queensland, which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria
That's flower form being influenced by human land use (and climate) on a continental scale 🏵 Awesome effort! 👏😮
#citizenscience
#citizenscience
In the news!🗞️
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A pan‐European citizen science study shows population size, climate and land use are related to biased morph ratios in the heterostylous plant Primula veris
A large-scale citizen science study involving thousands of cowslip (Primula veris) observations from all over Europe revealed an unexpected prevalence of S-morphs over L-morphs, which was influenced ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
That's flower form being influenced by human land use (and climate) on a continental scale 🏵 Awesome effort! 👏😮
#citizenscience
#citizenscience
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In the news!🗞️
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A pan‐European citizen science study shows population size, climate and land use are related to biased morph ratios in the heterostylous plant Primula veris
A large-scale citizen science study involving thousands of cowslip (Primula veris) observations from all over Europe revealed an unexpected prevalence of S-morphs over L-morphs, which was influenced ....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In the news!🗞️
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Thousands of European citizen scientists helped identify shifts in the #floral traits of #insect-#pollinated #plants: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...