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Mystery lights over Tehran revive memories of Iran’s 1976 ‘UFO’ encounter

New Delhi: Iranians filmed a mysterious object with bright, multicoloured lights flying over Tehran, prompting speculation on social…
#EuropeSays #Headlines #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Tehran #alienspecies #Iran #UFO
https://www.europesays.com/iran/302513/

https://www.europesays.com/iran/302513/ Mystery lights over Tehran revive memories of Iran’s 1976 ‘UFO’ encounter #AlienSpecies #Iran #Tehran #UFO

https://www.europesays.com/people/219296/ Hormuz ships could carry alien species to world ports #AlienSpecies #BiofoulingRisks #EcologicalDamage #JeffBezos #MarineBioFouling #MarineNonNativeSpecies #ShippingDisruptions #StraitOfHormuz

Scientists monitoring how beetles move in Canada following storms

There are about 8,000 species of beetles in Canada, and sometimes they get labelled as pests when it…
#Canada #Agriculture #alienspecies #beetles #climatechange #PatriceBouchard
https://www.europesays.com/canada/170029/

licks you with my long sticky tongue

adopt design for korwin!

freaky alts in the replies ⬇️

#alien #alienadopt #characterdesign #alienoc #alienspecies #butt #scifi #furry #feral #feraloc #adoptable

New publication: Online pet markets: extent and risks of trade in alien #reptiles and #amphibians. #alienspecies #pettrade #biodiversity
https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2026.17.2.03

New publication: Harmonizing risk scores for alien freshwater and brackish #molluscs. #alienspecies #aquaticsnails #bivalves
https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2026.17.2.02

#NewPaper out: Twenty-five years of Neobiota: building a community for invasion science in Europe and beyond by Ingo Kowarik and many great colleagues @TheresaHenke

#alienspecies #biologicalinvasions #neobiota

https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/173229/

😮A Lizardman walks through the woods at 5:30 am ❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕❕
#Wearenotaloneintheunviverse #Luisenterintementcrop #Waltonpictures #StarwayStudios #RaveStudios #snowmassmeidaenterprisesworldwide #Blueskycinemamagic #alien #spacecraft #cgi #SciFi #AlienSpecies #alienlifeform #extraterrestrial

Meet Nessa! A new OC I made that slots into AlfaFilly's scifi setting for her webcomic https://theselectioncomic.com/ It was fun to design a character with a lot of autistic traits I resonate with Hopefully there will be more of her soon!

Prodigia is the nation the comic takes place in and English is used as the language spoken. So its accurate to say English isn't her first language. 

#ambivian #ambivianoc #theselectionoc #alienspecies #digitalart #mysterycryptidart

#52booksin52weeks 4. Has a Dust Jacket - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir #alienspecies #AlienFriendship #SciFiAdventure #scifibooks #sciencefiction #engineering #biotech #savetheplanet #science #discovery #sacrifice #duty #memory #identity #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub

Through fights, schemes, and questionable life choices, Dugo, Ramnos, and Vajek stick together!
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

They say the secret ingredient is love, but in this kitchen, it’s suppressed rage.
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

Cooking up chaos in the kitchen, where the ingredients scream louder than the staff. I'm pretty sure the main course is winning the fight!
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

Capturing the chaos of the lunch rush!
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

Designing casual looks for Ramnos, Vajek, and Dugo.
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

You don't need dialogue to know this shift is going poorly.
#CreatureDesign #AlienDesign #SpaceCrew #ArtistSupport #characterdesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding

Meet Vajek, the definition of cool and collected... mostly. Even the chillest friend has a breaking point, especially during the dinner rush.
#oc #cyberpunk #alienspecies #characterdesign #conceptart #worldbuilding #storytelling #scifiworld

Introducing Ramnos, the suave daredevil. Whether he’s crushing high scores or turning dinner prep into extreme combat, he does it with a grin. 100% confidence, 0% chill.
#oc #cyberpunk #alienspecies #characterdesign #conceptart #worldbuilding #storytelling #scifiworld

Meet Dugo, the friend group’s rational overthinker. Why stress with two eyes when you can analyze every possible worst-case scenario with three?
#oc #cyberpunk #alienspecies #characterdesign #conceptart #worldbuilding #storytelling #scifiworld

Concept art of Anbis, and Beksina Camlorn. They are a newlywed couple raising their 800 offspring in a cramped two-bedroom apartment on a Paratess Complex Cruiser.
#characterdesign #creaturedesign #alienspecies #alienculture #worldbuilding #scififashion

OnlineFirst - "Strange birds of a feather: Israeli common myna, between invasiveness and belonging" by Eran Nisan Schwarzfuchs:

#Invasionbiology #multispecies #environment #alienspecies #Israel

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486251395505

https://www.europesays.com/uk/453964/ ‘The issue … is becoming a bigger priority’ #AlienSpecies #InvasiveSpecies #LessepsianMigration #MalteseWaters #MarineSpecies #MarineWildlife #MediterraneanIsland #NativeSpecies #Science #SuezCanal #TimesOfMalta #UK #UnitedKingdom #wildlife

#Fleabane #Erigeron #annuus is an #invasive #neophyte in #Europe, originally mative from Canada to Florida (USA). It arrived in Europe and #Asia as an ornamental plant in the 18th century and became naturalized.
C. Wang et al. (2020) studied it in China finding one #alienspecies be able to "generate a #favorable" #speciescommunity #habitat that is beneficial for following ones, using #Solidago #canadensis as 2nd alien.

©#StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137128

#Photos
©S F.Wirth

🏆 Zero-gravity sports meets diplomatic nightmare! Watch the Galactic Beat crew referee the most chaotic tournament in the galaxy, where six alien species play by completely different rules. Game on!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH495WLH
#GalacticBeat #ZeroGravitySports #NebulaBowl #IntergalacticTournament #AlienSpecies #GameOn

#NewPaper published:

Ingmar Staude et al: Many non-native plant species are threatened in parts of their native range. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70193

With @LeNematode and many others

#newPublication #NatureConservation #AlienSpecies @alienspecies

Yujing Liu revealed the key #BiologicalTraits causing #Bioinvasion differences among four #AlienSpecies of genus #Veronica in China, mainly attributed to #PhotosyntheticRelatedParameters (leaf mass per unit area) and #AsexualReproductionTraits (the ratio of adventitious roots).
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac068

#NewPaper out

Maria Milanović et al. (2025) Successful alien plant species exhibit functional dissimilarity from natives under varied climatic conditions but not under increased nutrient availability. Journal of Vegetation Science 36: e70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70032

Alien and native species increasing in their abundance did not differ in their leaf traits. We found significantly lower specific leaf area (SLA) with an increase in mean annual temperature and lower leaf Potassium with mean annual precipitation. For trait–environment relationships, when compared to native species, successful aliens exhibited an increase in leaf Phosphorus and a decrease in leaf Potassium with an increase in mean annual precipitation. Finally, aliens' SLA decreased in plots with higher mean annual temperatures.

#NewPublication #biodiversity #ecology #alienSpecies #functionalTraits #NutNet
#xp

LAST SAGA · URUHVEL
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #insect

LAST SAGA · URUHVEL
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #insect

LAST SAGA · URUHVEL
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #insect

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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #insect

LAST SAGA · TANAOR
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #transformers #robot #droid #armor

LAST SAGA · TANAOR
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #transformers #robot #droid #armor

LAST SAGA · TANAOR
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #transformers #robot #droid #armor

LAST SAGA · TANAOR
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #transformers #robot #droid #armor

LAST SAGA · CREATURES
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe where different factions fight each other.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies

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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe where different factions fight each other.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies

LAST SAGA · SAANAR
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Illustrations and concept art commissioned for “Last Saga” miniature wargame. Set in a science fiction universe where different factions fight each other.
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#miniatures #conceptart #illustration #characterdesign #lastsaga #wargame #scifi #alien #alienspecies #spacepirate #pirate

🆕Interview: In the interview, "Always keep your samples in a freezer", Antoine Felden talks about his recent research on viral loads and immune responses in invasive ants answers some questions. #immune #sistem #invasive #virus #alienspecies

https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2024/11/05/always-keep-your-samples-in-a-freezer/

Cities Shape the Diversity and Spread of Nonnative Species

#NewPublication out by Luke Potgieter, Daijiang Li, Ben Baiser, Mar Cadotte et al. in Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics.

Great collaboration of the #sGUBIK team, a synthesis group funded by sDiv @idiv

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102722-012749

#NewPaper #Ecology #UrbanEcology #AlienSpecies @alienspecies

NeoBiota https://neobiota.pensoft.net/ the journal which I have the pleasure and honour of being chief editor for the past 14 years, increased its Scopus CiteScore for the third consecutive year to now 8.1 (the journal's all-time high). This means we are in Q1 of #AnimalScience and #Zoology; #InsectScience; #AquaticScience; Ecology, #Evolution, Behavior and #Systematics; #PlantScience; #Ecology; and #EcologicalModelling.

#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #BiologicalInvasions #AlienSpecies

Very Ives Brained today.

Gnarsty boi.

#alien #originalspecies #alienspecies #monster #monsterman #terato #teratophilia #tongue #oc #ocart #art

Very Ives Brained today.

Gnarsty boi.

#alien #originalspecies #alienspecies #monster #monsterman #terato #teratophilia #tongue #oc #ocart #art

Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples’ lands

Indigenous peoples' land (ILP) host fewer alien invasive species relative to other lands, even if controlling for sampling intensity and other confounding factors. A likely factor are differences in land management practices. ILP and their management practices are hence important to protect nature.

#biodiversity #alienSpecies @alienspecies #indigenousLands #indigenousLandManagement

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01361-3

RT by @EU_ENV: Today is the #WorldBiodiversityDay 🌍🌸! Every day you can take good care of yourself by protecting nature and defend it from #alienspecies.
The Easin team is committed to protecting our biodiversity🌿🐝, visit our website and join us in this effort 👉 https://europa.eu/!Gx49Wk

[2024-05-22 09:56 UTC]

A colleague asked me to distribute this #jobs offer

Five new #InvasiveSpecies Officers in wonderful #Ireland

#alienSpecies @alienspecies #ecologyJob #jobsecoevo @jobsecoevo

https://biodiversityireland.ie/we-are-recruiting-five-new-invasive-species-officers/

Elastic Liz!🦎🎈
Whoa this lizard's a shape shifter, look what they can do too! Pic for @capital-ex

#art #digitalart #drawing #furry #furryart #cartoonist #scalie #OriginalCharacter #lizardfurry #lizardfolk #Reptile #reptilian #alienspecies #stretch #stretchpower #snout #cuteart #wholesomeart

#NewPaper published. Just a few days ago, I sent around the German (shorter) paper, now the English version is out in NeoBiota:

Katharina Myer et al.: Germany’s first Action plan on the pathways of invasive alien species to prevent their unintentional introduction and spread.

https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/106323/

#newPublication #alienSpecies @alienspecies

#newPaper just published:

European scenarios for future biological invasions.

By Cristian Pérez-Granados, @lenzner, Marina Golivets, Wolf-Christian Saul and colleagues (incl. @resilienceSci @HannoSeebens) in People & Nature.

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10567

#AlienSpecies @alienspecies #newpublication

A book chapter just published:

Joana Vicente et al. 2023. Modelling Invasion by Australian Acacia Species: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities. Wattles. CABI Books 496–513. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800622197.0030

Please look at the full book "Wattles. Australian Acacia Species Around the World" by David M. Richardson, Johannes J. Le Roux, Elizabete Marchante:
https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800622197.0030

#ecology #biologicalInvasions #alienSpecies #newPublication
@alienspecies

And for those working with Species Distribution Models #SDM #ecologicalNiche or #alienspecies, the chapter 'Assumptions: Respecting the known unknowns' by @DrBruceWebber, Roger Cousens and Daniel Atwater is a must-read:

https://bookdown.org/rogerdavidcousens/_book/assumptions-respecting-the-known-unknowns.html

#ecology #modelling #SpeciesDistributionModels #ecologicalTheory

My lucky weekend: We got two papers accepted where I am co-author.

One with an international team from https://alien-scenarios.org/#three where we provide European scenarios for future biological invasions.

The other with my dear colleagues from Vienna and Basel where we related the occurrence of threatened European butterflies with climate change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition.  

Stay tuned for further information, once the papers are out.

#publication #paper #ecology #AlienSpecies

New paper out: Future changes in key plant traits across Central Europe vary with biogeographical status, woodiness, and habitat type.

Future native woody assemblages are projected to increase in height, specific leaf area and seed mass. Herbaceous height increases and specific leaf area decreases in most habitats. Greater magnitude in trait change in non-native than native plant assemblages.

By Marina Golivets with @lenzner et al.

https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hzT1B8ccyhNO

#AlienSpecies
@alienspecies