The Asian tiger mosquito is spreading across Europe. Climate change is accelerating invasive species like it — and the UK may be next.

While barrier removals restore river connectivity and promote recovery of native populations, they may also facilitate non-native species, creating a ‘connectivity conundrum’. Using a systematic revi...

Invasive species are collectively a planetary-scale threat to all dimensions of sustainability. Despite increasing recognition that biological invasions threate

Demystifying invasivorism as a management strategy

MosquitoNI is assessing mosquitoes in Northern Ireland. The research project aims to determine the diversity and distribution of mosquitoes and their viruses, as well as how environmental changes may ...

Dr Ross Cuthbert from the School of Biological Sciences has been awarded over £1 million from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to lead a major new project on mosquitoes, thei...

In temperate regions, vector-borne disease risk is mediated by cold winter conditions, however, the cold tolerance of key vector taxa remains poorly understood. Culicoides biting midges are the primar...

A suspected case of Bluetongue Virus has been identified in cattle in Northern Ireland.

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Anthropogenic impacts manifest in rising temperatures worldwide, with drastic consequences for communities and ecosystems. Ectotherms tend to reach a smaller size at maturity in warmer environments, ...

Closely related fish species are more likely to invade, while human activity drives the number of invaders in a community.

Rates of evolutionary change vary over several orders of magnitude across species within ecological networks, resulting in multiple fundamental phenomena that s

Population-level differences can mediate biological invasion success under climatic gradients. I highlight recent research that demonstrates profound differences in environmental tolerances between i....

Estimates of the monetary costs of invasive species have been hampered by data gaps. These authors use documented costs for 162 species to interpolate costs of those species for countries previously l...

safeguarding island havens. new research. management stories. policy updates.

Spillback is potentially an important mechanism by which non-natives contribute to zoonotic disease emergence. We capitalise on quasi-experimental releases of non-native pheasants (Phasianus colchicu...

Biological invasions stand among the main anthropogenic threats to ecosystems globally while causing multitrillion-dollar impacts. Surprisingly, while trait-based frameworks have been designed to pred...

Climate change is likely to affect infectious diseases that are facilitated by biological invasions, with repercussions for wildlife conservation and zoonotic risks. Current invasion management and p...

Artificial barriers (e.g., dams) are longstanding features of global freshwater habitats, which are being removed in growing numbers due to the limitations they place on native species movements. How....

19 February 2025/Kiel. Animal populations from urban areas show significantly higher resilience to stressful environmental conditions. This was found by an international team of researchers led by Dr ...

To improve our knowledge of evolution and adaptation in urban and anthropogenically impacted habitats, we conducted the widest series of stress experiments to date with three marine taxa: one mussel ...

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Globalisation has accelerated rates of biological invasions worldwide, leading to widespread environmental perturbations that often translate into rap…

Non-native species can be major drivers of ecosystem alteration, especially through changes in trophic interactions. Successful non-native species have been predicted to have greater resource use eff...

A global multi-taxon extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna for The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species finds one-quarter of species to be at high risk of extinction.

Abstract. Biological invasions have profound impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services, resulting in substantial economic and health c