Invasive species are a major threat for native ecosystems and organisms living within. They are reducing the biodiversity in invaded ecosystems, by outcompeting native species with e. g. novel ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has produced, for the first time, high-resolution global maps of invasion risk for thousands of alien plant species under current ...

Invasive species are reshaping ecosystems and local people's relationship with nature in the tropics, a study led by Danish researchers Ninad Avinash Mungi and Jens Christian Svenning from Aarhus ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk. Species that are not ...

Scientists believe life on alien worlds may be constrained by the same factors as on our planet.

Srinagar: The invasive plant species Nothoscordum gracile, also known as false garlic, has been detected at a few places in ...

Table Mountain National Park has renewed permits for 29 volunteer groups for three years, following a year in which volunteers treated more than one million invasive alien plants.

(CNN) — Lake Naivasha, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya is becoming increasingly unnavigable. Water hyacinth, the world’s most widespread invasive species, is blanketing the lake, choking its fish and ...

Why do alien species damage ecosystems? Here are examples, ethical alternatives to abandonment, checklists for sustainable ...