biogeography

Read more about the article Where did the invasive Guttural Toads come from?
2019 / News

Where did the invasive Guttural Toads come from?

Guttural toads (Sclerophrys gutturalis) have been invasive in Mauritius and Reunion for nearly 100 years (since ~1922), and have been in Constantia (near Cape Town) for another 20 years, but where did those colonising toads come from?

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7 October 2019
Read more about the article How to define alien species?
A conceptual map of the proposed scheme for assessing the biogeographic status of taxa occurring in a regional species pool, showing the four assessment criteria, the levels of uncertainty in assessment, and the resulting assessment outcomes.
2018 / Highlighted papers

How to define alien species?

The human transport of species into new regions where they often become permanent additions to the fauna and flora has become a defining feature of our epoch, the Anthropocene.

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31 July 2018