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*/
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text-align: center !important; /* [1] */
width: 100% !important; /* [1] */
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margin-right: 0px !important; /* [1] */
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margin-right: 5px !important; /* [1] */
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width: 320px !important;
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display: none;
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display: table-cell;
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<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">If you've encountered
Japanese knotweed in your garden, or heard about the Asian hornets
threatening bees around the world, you'll know invasive alien species can
be disastrous for ecosystems.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">At least 3,500 invasive
alien species are threatening the diversity of living things on Earth and
costing the global economy US$423 billion (£363 billion) a year. That's
according to the most thorough investigation to date by a global body of
experts tasked by the UN with assessing the state of nature and its
benefits to society.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Humankind is moving
plants, animals and other organisms around the world at an alarming rate.
As these non-natives bed down in new environments, they can proliferate
unbound by predators or other pressures which have kept locally evolved
species in check – and ultimately outcompete them for habitat and
food. </P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">After a summer of extreme
weather in the northern hemisphere has highlighted the threat of climate
change to Earth's ecosystems, this new report suggests how wide-ranging
the assault on our planet's life support systems is.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">You're reading the Imagine
newsletter – a weekly synthesis of academic insight on solutions to
climate change, brought to you by The Conversation. I'm Jack Marley,
energy and environment editor. This week, discussing how climate change
and biological invasions are changing life on Earth.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Climate change appears to
have <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>aided the spread of non-native
species</STRONG></A> in some studied ecosystems. Marine heat waves,
bouts of abnormally high sea temperatures, have decimated hard coral
populations in the Mediterranean, for example. The loss of these
intricate, habitat-forming species will deny shelter to countless other
natives they have evolved alongside.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">In their place, exotic
species capable of withstanding higher temperatures such as lionfish and
silver-cheeked toadfish are gaining a foothold.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"Some research even
suggests that invasive species in the eastern Mediterranean, where native
populations have collapsed, will soon become the only ones capable of
sustaining ecosystems," says John Spicer, a professor of marine zoology at
the University of Plymouth.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Combined, invasive species
and climate change can accelerate the deterioration of biodiversity, the
name scientists give to the dazzling variety of life found on Earth. As
unique ecosystems containing species which may have evolved over millennia
in relative isolation, <STRONG><A
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data-emb-iscopy="true">including Antarctica</A></STRONG>, become more
uniform, they could also become more vulnerable to the effects of climate
change.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"Already established
invasive alien species can <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>supercharge environmental
disasters</STRONG></A>," say Andy Sheppard (CSIRO), Melodie McGeoch (La
Trobe University), Philip Hulme (Lincoln University, New Zealand) and
Phill Cassey (University of Adelaide).</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"For example, the
wildfire-promoting properties of introduced African pasture grasses
exacerbated bushfires in Hawaii this year."</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">In some cases, the dynamic
flows in the opposite direction. Scientists fear that some invasive
species are accelerating the rate at which Earth is heating.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Kudzu is a vine related to
beans and other legumes. After evolving in east Asia, kudzu was
transplanted to the US via a handful of plants in 1876, where it now
occupies millions of hectares. Kudzu can grow up to a metre every three
days, allowing it to quickly engulf native needled pine forests and
grasslands, not to mention buildings and electricity transmission
lines.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Among the most nefarious
of kudzu's talents is its ability to speed up the rate at which soil
microbes in the forests it invades break down decomposing plant
matter.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"When it takes over
ecosystems, this invader causes soils to <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>surrender their
carbon</STRONG></A> and release it as greenhouse gas," says Malcolm
Campbell, a professor of plant biology at the University of Toronto.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><STRONG>Invaders must
die?</STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Not all invasive plants
cause the soil to "puke carbon" as Campbell describes it. Knotweed, native
to Japan, China and Korea, may have actually helped soil store more carbon
in some of the European and North American habitats it has overran
according to <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true">the same study</A>, by plant ecologists Nishanth
Tharayil and Mioko Tamura of Clemson University.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Cold comfort for anyone
who lives near <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>rivers choked with knotweed</STRONG></A>.
Nevertheless, it demonstrates that the contributions of alien species to
the ecosystems and communities they find themselves in are not entirely
negative. Even the designations "invasive" and "alien" are complicated and
subjective to an extent.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"Alien species <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>can also benefit people</STRONG></A>, says
Kelvin Peh, an associate professor of conservation science at the
University of Southampton. "Perceptions of their threat can vary depending
on who you ask, which can complicate their management".</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Peh notes that on the
Caribbean island of Montserrat, introduced cattle, sheep, goats and pigs
have gone feral, but regular culls offer a steady supply of meat for local
cuisines.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Elsewhere, humanity's
proclivity for moving species around could help some ecosystems to adapt
to climate change according to a team of researchers from the University
of Debrecen in Hungary. Judit Sonkoly, a research fellow in ecology, came
to this conclusion after allowing stowaway seeds in samples of commercial
potting mix to germinate in a greenhouse, and discovering an average of
six species per litre of soil.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Five of these species were
not native to Hungary. Some seeds had travelled more than 1,000 kilometres
from the peat they originated in to the garden centre they were sold
in.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"Many of their former
habitats are becoming too hot or dry, so moving can <A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>ensure plants persist</STRONG></A> in
rapidly changing landscapes," Sonkoly says.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"The loss of large wild
herbivores, herded livestock and fruit-eating wildlife has already severed
options for long-distance dispersal. In their absence, humanity can act as
the main dispersal agent, transporting many species over very long
distances."</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">It would be a mistake to
write off invasive species as a law unto themselves, argues Peh. "Like
other environmental changes, biological invasions are largely determined
by how people live and how society is organised," he says.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">This notion leaps out at
you when you compare the composition of modern plant communities in
distant regions.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"We investigated the alien
flora of four European empires (British, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch)
and showed that regions that were once occupied by the same European
colonial power are still more similar today compared to other regions not
occupied by the same power," say Bernd Lenzner and Guillaume Latombe,
experts in environmental change at Universität Wien and the University of
Edinburgh respectively.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"The longer regions were
<A
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>occupied by a colonial power</STRONG></A>,
the more similar they are to each other."</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Today's invasive species
problem was centuries in the making. But after modelling future scenarios
for biodiversity according to how well countries cooperate to regulate
trade, the biggest driver of biological invasions, Latombe concluded that
there is still time to bring the rate of new invasions under control.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"[Either] countries eschew
cooperation but maintain lightly regulated trade and preside over a rising
number of invasions [or] high levels of regulation and regional and global
governance foster low or stable levels of biological invasions," he
says.</P>
<P style="MARGIN-TOP: 20px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">"While invasions have
already caused substantial damage, the future outcome is <A
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href="https://theconversationuk.cmail20.com/t/r-l-ttkkwuy-nljldnkrt-o/"
data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>still largely ours to
decide</STRONG></A>".</P>
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data-emb-iscopy="true"><STRONG>The true damage of invasive alien species
was just revealed in a landmark report. Here’s how we
must act</STRONG></A></P>
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lang=x-size-16 class=size-16><SPAN style="COLOR: #202020">Alien invaders
are penetrating the borders of every country in the world. Now the full
extent of the problems and potential solutions have been exposed, in a new
United Nations report. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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data-emb-iscopy="true">Invasive species are threatening Antarctica’s
fragile ecosystems as human activity grows and the
world warms</A></STRONG></P>
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lang=x-size-16 class=size-16><SPAN style="COLOR: #202020">While some
invasive animals have breached Antarctica, the continent is still
pristine. Our challenge is keeping it that
way. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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data-emb-iscopy="true">The ‘plant that ate the South’ makes soil
puke carbon</A></STRONG></P>
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lang=x-size-16 class=size-16><SPAN style="COLOR: #202020">Recent research
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