• Some have a substantial negative effect on a local ecosystem (in which case they are also classified more specifically as an invasive species), while other introduced species may have little or no negative impact (no invasiveness). (wikipedia.org)
  • Invasive species are those introduced species that spread widely or quickly and cause harm, be that to the environment, human health, other valued resources, or the economy. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to a practical definition, an invasive species is one that has been introduced and become a pest in its new location, spreading (invading) by natural means. (wikipedia.org)
  • The East Asian ambrosia beetle ( Xylosandrus germanus - Blandford 1894) is an invasive species that has become successfully established in Europe and North America. (sisef.it)
  • The first economic damage was recorded in 2016 after a massive attack on recently felled logs of different tree species, spurring research into this non-native invasive species. (sisef.it)
  • Therefore, ambrosia beetles are one of the most successful groups of invasive species worldwide ( [28] ). (sisef.it)
  • Axis deer are an invasive species originally from southern India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. (blogspot.com)
  • It has since become one of Hawaii's ten worst invasive species, according to Hawaiian Plant Life (Guffsafson, Herbst, and Rundel, 2014). (inaturalist.org)
  • This species has also been introduced to Hawaii where it is now an invasive species. (batterseaparkzoo.co.uk)
  • They are now well established on a couple of the Hawaiian islands as an invasive species. (batterseaparkzoo.co.uk)
  • The Nordic collections are used today primarily to clarify which species have been present at a certain place at a certain time, for example, to be able to study how changes in the environment and climate have affected the flora over the past 200 years and to document newly immigrated potentially invasive species. (lu.se)
  • The better-known Cannibus sativa also appears, in one of the boxes around the map's border that introduce plants from outside North America, including Erythroxylon coca , from Bolivia and Peru, and Papaver somniferum , from which opium derives. (openculture.com)
  • R. H. MacArthur and his colleagues demonstrated that bird species diversity is strongly correlated with foliage height diversity (Figure 18.1) in a remarkably similar way on three continents: North America, South America, and Australia. (utexas.edu)
  • Despite the fact that avian niche space is partitioned in a fundamentally different way in Australia, bird species diversity within a given habitat on that continent is very close to what it is in a habitat of similar structure in North America (Recher 1969). (utexas.edu)
  • It has been introduced and is established on the East Coast of North America, Australia and South Africa. (nisbase.org)
  • Morphological phylogeny of the family Actinostolidae (Anthozoa : Actiniaria) with description of a new genus and species of hydrothermal vent sea anemone redefining the family Actinoscyphiidae. (marbef.org)
  • For each valid genus, the valid species are listed, Recent taxa first. (uwsp.edu)
  • 1932: 113-134, 18 figs, Pls II-V. [details] basis of record Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2023). (marinespecies.org)
  • 1932). The marine and fresh-water sponges of California. (marinespecies.org)
  • An Essay on Sponges, with Descriptions of all the Species that have been discovered on the Coast of Great Britain. (vliz.be)
  • In the second part, using data from a few species of four ant subfamilies (Myrmicinae, Formicinae, Ponerinae and Dorylinae) on the intensity of reaction to a crushed conspecific on the trail, it is shown that intensity of disturbance appears to be correlated not with taxonomic position but with the degree of mutual attraction or interaction at an individual level present in each species. (bvsalud.org)
  • Our collections are mainly used in taxonomic research to clarify species boundaries, relationships and which name should be used. (lu.se)
  • To examine the distribution and abundance of X. germanus compared to other ambrosia beetles and to determine voltinism and the flight period of the species in our climatic conditions, we deployed 19 ethanol-baited traps from March to November 2017 in oak-, beech- and fir-dominated forest stands in central Slovenia. (sisef.it)
  • Is Hellinger transformation suitable to access species abundance - environmental variable relationships? (stackexchange.com)
  • Is Hellinger transformation suitable for repeated (in time) site-species abundance data? (stackexchange.com)
  • Should I use Hellinger transformed species (abundance) data for NMDS if this is what I used for RDA ordination? (stackexchange.com)
  • In the middle of the painting is an abundance of aquatic species, aggregated such as they are to produce the figure of a human head and chest. (acsa-arch.org)
  • European Register of Marine Species. (vliz.be)
  • European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. (marbef.org)
  • In 1932, the Axis deer were introduced to Texas and were intended to be game animals. (blogspot.com)
  • Although imposing and tall (especially with exceptional antlers), the axis deer is a medium-sized buck, larger than Texas whitetails and desert mule deer, but smaller than northern deer of either species. (sportsafield.com)
  • Chital/axis deer were first introduced into Texas in 1932 and today it has far the largest population and the greatest hunting opportunity. (sportsafield.com)
  • In New Guinea , Mayr collected several thousands bird skins (he named 26 new bird species during his lifetime) and, in the process also named 38 new orchid species. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Correlation between foliage height diversity and bird species diversity. (utexas.edu)
  • Habitats with equal amounts of foliage (measured by leaf surface) in three layers (0 to 0.6, 0.6 to 8, and over 8 meters above ground) are richer in bird species than are habitats with unequal proportions of foliage in the three layers. (utexas.edu)
  • The diversity of bird species is lowest in habitats with only one of these layers of vegetation, such as a grassland. (utexas.edu)
  • Interestingly enough, knowledge of plant species diversity does not allow an improvement in the prediction of bird species diversity (MacArthur and MacArthur 1961), which suggests that birds recognize the structure rather than type of the vegetation. (utexas.edu)
  • In addition to illustrating that spatial heterogeneity regulates bird species diversity, the convergence of these data suggests that these avifaunas are saturated with species. (utexas.edu)
  • this adaptation for running is seen in other bird species, such as bustards and quails. (kiwifoto.com)
  • By the turn of the 20th century, Southern California gardeners were hot for exotic palm trees and introduced them to the area. (juniorsbook.com)
  • Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a British plant collector and explorer who introduced around 2,000 Asian plant species to the West. (bordehill.co.uk)
  • Iran harbors hotspots in microbial diversity and some new species of actinobacteria were isolated and reported from soils of Iran [15-18]. (docksci.com)
  • Broadly speaking, he posited that there must be diversity among the offspring of a species. (nationalacademies.org)
  • It's been a fascinating and highly inspirational project, and I have been introduced to extraordinary species in celebrating the diversity of the area. (trinitynews.ie)
  • There were plenty of honey bees ( Apis mellifora ), and at least two species of bumble bees, but I was only able to get a decent picture of one. (inaturalist.org)
  • None of the findings were the mysterious missing birds of paradise, leading Stresemann to conclude later that they were thus hybrids between known species (Diamond 2001). (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The term "invasive" is used to describe introduced species that cause ecological, economic, or other damage to the area in which they were introduced. (wikipedia.org)
  • That is, is there a maximum number of different species that can exist within an ecological system? (utexas.edu)
  • Naturalized species are often introduced species that do not need human help to reproduce and maintain their population in an area outside their native range (no longer adventive), but that also applies to populations migrating and establishing in a novel environment (e.g.: in Europe, house sparrows are well established since early Iron Age though they originated from Asia). (wikipedia.org)
  • They are not native to the United States or Canada, but at least 5 separate introduced populations of Asian swamp eels ( Monopterus spp. (cdc.gov)
  • Genetic analysis revealed that the introduced wild populations are composed of 3 genetically distinct clades within the M. albus (Zuiew, 1793) complex, a widely-distributed group native to eastern and southeastern Asia ( 20 , 21 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This approach would yield negative values for the species table in case the populations of given species decrease from one year to the next. (stackexchange.com)
  • More recently, they have been widely introduced into Argentina, both on estates and in significant free-range populations. (sportsafield.com)
  • If so, a new species introduced into such a community must either go extinct or cause the extinction of another species (which it then replaces). (utexas.edu)
  • When we analyse the details of coral reef declines, we find that many species are affected by rising sea temperatures, but some are not, and it is possible that some species will adapt by natural selection to the higher temperatures. (ubc.ca)
  • Introduced species are essentially "non-native" species. (wikipedia.org)
  • Moreover, releasing imported foreign fish infected with parasites into open waters may introduce and spread nonnative parasites harmful to native faunas ( 17 , 18 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The map identifies important species-native or cultivated-in each region of the country. (openculture.com)
  • Across the country in Nevada, we are introduced to Apocynum cannabinum , "native of U.S. and Southern Canada-the dried rhizome and roots constitute the drug apocynum or Canadian hemp. (openculture.com)
  • These snails arrived in Hawaii in 1932 and have been a threat to native and cultivated plants ever since. (inaturalist.org)
  • Although Camellia japonica, a native of Japan, was introduced into Mobile through European channels more than 150 years ago, it is only during the early 1940's it really has come into its own. (plant-care.com)
  • Introduced herbivores frequently inflict significant, yet patchy damage on native ecosystems through selective browsing. (edu.au)
  • We quantified the spatial and temporal variation in four key aspects of the foliar chemistry (total nitrogen, available nitrogen, in vitro dry matter digestibility and tannin effect) of 275 trees representing five native tree species. (edu.au)
  • The native range of this species is NE. (kew.org)
  • Ostrea edulis was introduced to East Coast waters by the US Bureau of Fisheries to provide an oyster that could support fisheries in waters too cold to support the native Eastern Oyster ( Crassostrea virignica ) (Loosanoff 1955). (nisbase.org)
  • Other things that in recent years have attracted researchers to the Nordic herbarium are among other things the possibilities to obtain from the collections unique information about the phenology of species (like flowering time), chemical contents (like environmental toxins) and parasites (like micro-fungi and bile-forming insects), and how these have changed over time and space. (lu.se)
  • Kerr was appointed Government Botanist, first Director of the Botanical section of the Ministry of Commerce and then Director General of the Department of Agricultural Research, before returning to Europe in 1932. (trinitynews.ie)
  • Many of the giant indicas were introduced into Mobile from Europe over 175 years ago. (plant-care.com)
  • Introduced to Europe. (uwsp.edu)
  • Mayr was introduced to Erwin Stresemann, a well-known ornithologist at Berlin's Zoological Museum, as a result of Mayr's claimed sighting of red-crested pochards in Germany-a species that had not been seen in Europe for 77 years. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • original description (of Acrochaetium sargassicola Børgesen, 1932 ) Børgesen, F. (1932). (marinespecies.org)
  • original description Burton, M. (1932). (marinespecies.org)
  • original description Carlgren, O. (1932). (marbef.org)
  • original description (of Rhopalopetalum blanci Brölemann, 1932 ) Brölemann, H. W. (1932). (millibase.org)
  • Conversely, the successful invasion of a new species into a community without the extermination of an existing species would imply that the original community was not saturated with species. (utexas.edu)
  • The formal definition of an introduced species from the United States Environmental Protection Agency is "A species that has been intentionally or inadvertently brought into a region or area. (wikipedia.org)
  • Number of species in equal-area (611,000 km²) grid cells with an equal-interval blue scale. (nhm.ac.uk)
  • Among the species, and by area, the antler growth cycle varies, as does the time when they drop their antlers. (sportsafield.com)
  • Recently, research has increased in the area of transplanting embryonic cells across species and growing kidneys and endocrine pancreas cells in situ. (medscape.com)
  • The Latin expression neobiota captures the characteristic that these species are new biota to their environment in terms of established biological network (e.g. food web) relationships. (wikipedia.org)
  • Acclimatized species are introduced species that have changed physically and/or behaviorally in order to adjust to their new environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Acclimatized species are not necessarily optimally adjusted to their new environment and may just be physically/behaviorally sufficient for the new environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The process of human-caused introduction is distinguished from biological colonization, in which species spread to new areas through "natural" (non-human) means such as storms and rafting. (wikipedia.org)
  • His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution , and to the development of the biological species concept . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Immigrant species are species that travel, sometimes by themselves, but often with human help, between two habitats. (wikipedia.org)
  • Limited evidence suggests that portions of some communities may indeed be saturated with species, at least within habitats. (utexas.edu)
  • i ) its only significant natural reservoir is humans, ( ii ) it has substantially diminished virulence for most animal species other than humans, and ( iii ) it has developed a survival-transmission strategy that is unparalleled among the mycobacteria: airborne human-to-human spread. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Perhaps this interest stems from a need to connect with the natural world and a realisation that unsustainable development in many parts of the world, including Ireland, is threatening species survival and the unique ecosystems that they occupy. (trinitynews.ie)
  • I did a bit of searching online and found that Curinus coeruleus was introduced to Hawaii in 1932 to control the coconut mealy bug ( Nipeococcus nipae ) and the psillid ( Heteropsylla cubana ) , a pest of the haole koa tree ( Leucaena leucocephala ). (inaturalist.org)
  • We found significant spatial and temporal variation in nutritional quality among individuals of each tree species examined, as well as among tree species. (edu.au)
  • There are both male and female flowers and some species have flowers of both sexes on the same tree. (juniorsbook.com)
  • Palms comprise 3000 species of tree distributed throughout the warmer countries of the world. (juniorsbook.com)
  • It is the national tree and emblem of Colombia and is now a protected species, which means it can't be used for logging. (juniorsbook.com)
  • Can I perform PCA on species count differences instead of species counts themselves? (stackexchange.com)
  • The species was found along the entire altitudinal gradient. (sisef.it)
  • P. fruitetorum is found in several places in South Africa and was introduced into Britain in 1932. (perfect-pelargoniums.com)
  • Bucktooth tetras are aggressive, territorial shoaling fish that swim in large groups, and will attack other fish to defend their realm, so they should only live in a species tank. (fishkeepingworld.com)
  • They've been introduced though to other parts of the United States and can be considered highly invasive as they are large predators, with few natural predators of their own. (a-z-animals.com)
  • This is not to forget the sugar, oil and fruit from many species which are a large industry as well. (juniorsbook.com)
  • Bucktooth tetras are aggressive freshwater fish from the tetra fish family, making them a species-specific choice for a tank. (fishkeepingworld.com)
  • No impacts have been reported from its introduced range. (nisbase.org)
  • However, some sources add to that basic definition "and are now reproducing in the wild", which means that species growing in a garden, farm, or house may not meet the criteria unless they escape and persist. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most of these market fish are purchased for food, but some are introduced into the wild. (cdc.gov)
  • Introduced from Japan circa 1870, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) and the famous wild gardener William Robinson (1838-1935) grew it as Eulalia japonica. (seedaholic.com)
  • L.P. Sergievskaya created floral directory for all Siberian Herbarium Departments, containing information on the location and habitat of all species of vascular plants included in the collection of the Herbarium. (tsu.ru)
  • Forest Research Institute and Cawthron Institute reports in 1935 state the species to be L. obscura , but this was a misidentification, and specimens from New Zealand were determined by [Canadian expert] J. F. McAlpine to be L. tapiae in 1971. (b3.net.nz)
  • Mayr's theories on speciation remain the leading view of how new species evolve from common ancestors via Darwinian principles, and he provided the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Three different Dromaius species were common in Australia before European settlement, and one species is known from fossils. (kiwifoto.com)
  • within the Region it has become more common in the southern Sudan where anthro- ponotic and zoonotic sub-species infections overlap. (who.int)
  • The next fish on our list is the other catfish species in Ohio. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Introduced into Lake Hopatcong back in 1874 by Maurice Decker with fish that were caught from Greenwood Lake. (kneedeepclub.org)
  • As with many other species of fish, the females tend to grow larger and live longer than the males. (kneedeepclub.org)
  • The current State Record of 10 lbs. 14 oz. was caught back in 1980 and the World Record of 22 lbs. 4 oz. was caught in Georgia way back in 1932. (kneedeepclub.org)
  • Webb in his 1932 historical overview of tuberculosis speculated that the tuberculosis germ was first systematically introduced into humankind when humans domesticated cattle around 5000 B.C. ( 1 ). (nationalacademies.org)