A recent study by C·I·B post-doctoral fellow, Michelle Jackson, found that invasive species can have effects that reach across different ecosystems.
Estuaries are among the most vulnerable of marine ecosystems and small, urban estuaries, in particular, are under pressure due to human activities.
Genetic analyses of a population of invasive French platannas suggest they came from all over South Africa.
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the use of functional responses (FRs) as a tool in invasion ecology. A workshop was held that focussed on the current applications of FRs and their future use in understanding, determining and predicting impact of non-native species.
When we consider how invasive alien species affect native species, we mainly think of alien predators preying on native species. However, there are examples of native species that prey on alien species - which leads ecologists to the question “what are the effects of alien prey on predatory-prey relationships?”
