Biodiversity loss in plants worldwide
When alien plants integrate into an existing ecosystem and successfully spread there, in rare cases this can contribute to the increased uniqueness of the regional flora. However, much more often this process — known as “naturalization” — leads to a homogenization of regional floras and thus to a net loss of global floristic uniqueness. Especially […]
Crayfish and carp among the invasive species pushing lakes towards ecosystem collapse
Certain invasive, non-native species can disrupt lakes to the point of rapid ecosystem collapse, contaminating water for drinking, aquaculture and recreation, a new study has found. Human activity and climate change are causing invasive non-native species to spread rapidly across the globe. Researchers have found that certain invasive species can push lake ecosystems beyond a […]