#alienspecies — Public Fediverse posts

#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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

#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

#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

#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

🆕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

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

Highly invasive fire ant reaches Europe, scientists call for urgent action https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/highly-invasive-fire-ant-reaches-europe-scientists-call-for-urgent-action/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Africa #alienspecies #ants #EuropeanUnion #fireant

Highly invasive fire ant reaches Europe, scientists call for urgent action https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/highly-invasive-fire-ant-reaches-europe-scientists-call-for-urgent-action/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Africa #alienspecies #ants #EuropeanUnion #fireant

New journal #ImpactFactors are out. I know that it is highly disputed performance measure. It reflects rather whether authors produce papers that readers like and cite, than editorial foresight. That of NeoBiota increased to 5.1.

Still I am happy that our scientific community on #AlienSpecies (exotics, non-natives) value and trust our journal so much. Thank you to authors, reviewers, associate and special editors and the great production team at Pensoft Publishers.

https://neobiota.pensoft.net/

A new study (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064423000214) found that the global economic impact of biological invasions is equivalent in magnitude to that of natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, floods and storms.

The costs of biological invasions have increased more rapidly than those of natural disasters over the past 4 decades.

Societies need to build a culture of safety & resilience against the threat of #BiologicalInvasions - just as we have done for natural hazards.
#InvasiveSpecies #AlienSpecies

Our New study amazingly led by @DaijunLiu.
If you are interested in #alienspecies, #landuse change and the effects on local assemblages, don't miss out!
#bioinvasionsVIE
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RT @DaijunLiu
Our latest paper on NC @NatureComms is out: Thanks for all of co-authors. @FranzEssl1, @Bernd_le_ , @TimBlackburn66,@WayneDawsonEco, @sMarten_Winter, @AndyPurvisNHM, @HannoSeebens ,@JanPergl , @BioGeoKreft,@Ellie_E_Dyer ,@carlo_rondinini,@Weigelt_P
https://twitter.com/daijunliu/status/1646406368704831489

A #tiger escaped from a residence and roamed the countryside outside Johannesburg, South Africa, for four days this month. It attacked a man and killed several animals.

Tigers aren’t native to South Africa and are considered an alien species. Its escape highlights the country’s controversial commercial captive breeding industry and the key role South Africa plays in the international big cat trade.

#TrophyHunting
#CaptiveBreeding
#AlienSpecies

https://theconversation.com/tigers-in-south-africa-a-farming-industry-exists-often-for-their-body-parts-198238

Franz Essl (Uni Vienna) today received the award as “Scientist of the year” from the Austrian Presseclub. Very well deserved.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000142380162/oekologe-franz-essl-das-geht-um-180-grad-in-die?ref=article

#AlienSpecies
#InvasionEcology
@alienspecies

Franz Essl (Uni Vienna) today received the award as “Scientist of the year” from the Austrian Presseclub. Very well deserved.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000142380162/oekologe-franz-essl-das-geht-um-180-grad-in-die?ref=article

#AlienSpecies
#InvasionEcology
@alienspecies

Franz Essl (Uni Vienna) today received the award as “Scientist of the year” from the Austrian Presseclub. Very well deserved.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000142380162/oekologe-franz-essl-das-geht-um-180-grad-in-die?ref=article

#AlienSpecies
#InvasionEcology
@alienspecies

Franz Essl (Uni Vienna) today received the award as “Scientist of the year” from the Austrian Presseclub. Very well deserved.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000142380162/oekologe-franz-essl-das-geht-um-180-grad-in-die?ref=article

#AlienSpecies
#InvasionEcology
@alienspecies

Franz Essl (Uni Vienna) today received the award as “Scientist of the year” from the Austrian Presseclub. Very well deserved.

https://www.derstandard.de/story/2000142380162/oekologe-franz-essl-das-geht-um-180-grad-in-die?ref=article

#AlienSpecies
#InvasionEcology
@alienspecies

Dear #InvasionEcologists, #AlienSpecies, #ExoticSpecies, #BiologicalInvasions researchers,

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Dear #InvasionEcologists, #AlienSpecies, #ExoticSpecies, #BiologicalInvasions researchers,

I created a group @alienspecies

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Dear #InvasionEcologists, #AlienSpecies, #ExoticSpecies, #BiologicalInvasions researchers,

I created a group @alienspecies

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Dear #InvasionEcologists, #AlienSpecies, #ExoticSpecies, #BiologicalInvasions researchers,

I created a group @alienspecies

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Dear #InvasionEcologists, #AlienSpecies, #ExoticSpecies, #BiologicalInvasions researchers,

I created a group @alienspecies

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RT @Invasivesnet: HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!! #InvestInOurPlanet
Do you know you can help to prevent the introduction of alien species? In this #EarthDay, we tell you how! #INVASIVESNET #alienspecies #exoticspecies

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/Plants_EFSA/status/1517496904183169024