Without urgent action, Australia will continue to lose billions of dollars every year on invasive species.
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Invasive species have been invading foreign territories for centuries. By quantifying the mammoth economic impacts, we hope political leaders will start to take notice.
By all means, rescue an injured koala. But by pulling out weeds after the fires, you could also help rescue a whole ecosystem.
Along with climate change and drought, invasive grasses are promoting wildfires across the US, even in areas that don’t normally burn.
Famine weed spreads rapidly and is devastatingly destructive. Biocontrol is one way of dealing with the problem.
Wildfires are expected to increase in a warming world, but there is another way humans are changing the patterns and intensity of fires: by introducing flammable plants to new environments.
Invasive plants have an impact on native species and unless these factors are properly understood, it is difficult to predict what sort of impact invasive plants will have.
For mapping patterns of plant invasion from the sky, understanding plant behaviour on the ground and using it along with remote sensing cameras, is crucial.
Regulating species in South Africa is difficult. But identifying those creating the greatest tension, would shift focus on the most destructive species.
Many alien plants and animals have been introduced to Africa from other regions and spread from country to country, often having devastating effects.
Top contributors
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PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Boise State University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Director of the Wildlife Crime Research Hub, Australian Research Council Industry Laureate Fellow, Adelaide University
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Professor of Biology, University of Dayton
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Deputy Director of the Centre for Biological Control at Rhodes University and Biological Control and Freshwater Alien Invasive Species Management, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
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Physiological ecologist at the C·I·B, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral fellow at the CIB, Stellnbosch University, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, South African National Biodiversity Institute
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Associate Professor Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor of Horticulture, University of Connecticut
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PhD Candidate Invasive Species Management, University of the Witwatersrand