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Invasive species

Plant, animal, or microbe species that is non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm, or harm to human health.

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Invasive species program [More info]: This program provides management-oriented research and delivers information needed to prevent, detect, control, and eradicate invasive species, and to restore impaired ecosystems.
Invasive Species Program -- Snakeheads, aquatic invaders [More info]: Snakeheads, aggressive airbreathing freshwater fishes that are not native to North America, are considered injurious to certain native North American fish and other aquatic wildlife.
Invasive species research [More info]: Links to research projects that will improve the ability to detect, monitor, and predict the effects of invasive species, including exotic animals, on native ecosystems of the Pacific Southwest (California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona).
Applying remote sensing to invasive species science-A tamarisk example [More info]: Explains how remote sensing data are used to understand the current extent and likely future of an invasive plant, in this case a bush.
Patuxent's effects of ecological processes and human impacts on biological resources--invasive species [More info]: List and brief abstracts on research projects on invasive species, the ecology of introduced species, and developing management strategies at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.
Using genetic research to inform imperiled and invasive species management [More info]: Describes investigative techniques focused on genetic characteristics of individuals and populations, and explains how this information helps improve existing natural populations and potentially impede invasive populations.
Biological resource status and trends: Aquatic invasive organisms [More info]: Information concerning status and trends of biological resources, focusing on aquatic invasive organisms
Biological resource status and trends: Invasive organisms [More info]: Information concerning status and trends of biological resources, focusing on invasive organisms
Biological resource status and trends: Terrestrial invasive organisms [More info]: Information concerning status and trends of biological resources, focusing on terrestrial invasive organisms
South Florida Restoration Science Forum: Invasive exotic species [More info]: Posters on the distribution and control of nonindigenous species introduced into southern Florida.

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