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185 relations: Acer platanoides, Adaptation, Adventive plant, Africa, Africanized bee, Agriculture, Alewife (fish), Allele, American Acclimatization Society, American bison, Americas, Ampullariidae, Andes, Aphis nerii, Aquaculture, Arachnid, Archaeophyte, Asia, Asian carp, Atlantic salmon, Australia, Australian Dung Beetle Project, Ballast water discharge and the environment, Banana, Beaver, Biological dispersal, Biological globalization, Biological hazard, Biological network, Biological pest control, Biome, Biotope, Bosmina, Brown marmorated stink bug, Brown rat, California tiger salamander, Canada goose, Cane toad, Caribbean, Cat, Caulerpa taxifolia, Cercopagididae, Cincinnati, Coccinellidae, Colonisation (biology), Common brushtail possum, Common pheasant, Common starling, Conservation genetics, Ctenophora, ... Expand index (135 more) »
Acer platanoides
Acer platanoides, commonly known as the Norway maple, is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and western Asia, from Spain east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran.
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Adaptation
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings.
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Adventive plant
Adventive plants or adventitious plants are plants that have established themselves in a place that does not correspond to their area of origin due to anthropogenic influence and, therefore, are all wild species that have only been established with the help of humans, in contrast to the native species.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
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Africanized bee
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
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Alewife (fish)
The alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus;: alewives) is an anadromous species of herring found in North America.
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Allele
An allele, or allelomorph, is a variant of the sequence of nucleotides at a particular location, or locus, on a DNA molecule.
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American Acclimatization Society
The American Acclimatization Society was a group founded in New York City in 1871 dedicated to introducing European flora and fauna into North America for both economic and cultural reasons.
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American bison
The American bison (Bison bison;: bison), also called the American buffalo, or simply buffalo (not to be confused with true buffalo), is a species of bison native to North America.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
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Ampullariidae
Ampullariidae, whose members are commonly known as apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails that includes the mystery snail species.
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Aphis nerii
Aphis nerii is an aphid of the family Aphididae.
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Aquaculture
Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).
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Arachnid
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida of the subphylum Chelicerata.
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Archaeophyte
An archaeophyte is a plant species which is non-native to a geographical region, but which was an introduced species in "ancient" times, rather than being a modern introduction.
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Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Asian carp
Asian carp is a grouping of fishes commonly used to mean silver, bighead carp, white and black amur, which are regarded invasive in the United States.
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Atlantic salmon
The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Dung Beetle Project
The Australian Dung Beetle Project (1965–1985), conceived and led by Dr George Bornemissza of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), was an international scientific research and biological control project with the primary goal to control the polluting effects of cattle dung.
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Ballast water discharge and the environment
Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment.
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Banana
A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.
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Beaver
Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere.
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Biological dispersal
Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site ('natal dispersal'), as well as the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal').
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Biological globalization
Biological globalization refers to the phenomenon where domesticated species are brought and cultivated in other favorable environments, facilitated by and for the benefit of humans.
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Biological hazard
A biological hazard, or biohazard, is a biological substance that poses a threat (or is a hazard) to the health of living organisms, primarily humans.
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Biological network
A biological network is a method of representing systems as complex sets of binary interactions or relations between various biological entities.
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Biological pest control
Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms.
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Biome
A biome is a distinct geographical region with specific climate, vegetation, and animal life.
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Biotope
A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals. Introduced species and biotope are ecology terminology.
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Bosmina
Bosmina is a genus in the order Cladocera, the water fleas.
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Brown marmorated stink bug
The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions.
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Brown rat
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat.
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California tiger salamander
The California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense) is a vulnerable amphibian native to California.
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Canada goose
The Canada goose (Branta canadensis), sometimes called Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.
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Cane toad
The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
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Cat
The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.
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Caulerpa taxifolia
Caulerpa taxifolia is a species of green seaweed, an alga of the genus Caulerpa, native to tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Caribbean Sea.
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Cercopagididae
Cercopagididae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Diplostraca.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati (nicknamed Cincy) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.
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Coccinellidae
Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles.
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Colonisation (biology)
Colonisation or colonization is the spread and development of an organism in a new area or habitat. Introduced species and Colonisation (biology) are ecology terminology.
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Common brushtail possum
The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula, from the Greek for "furry tailed" and the Latin for "little fox", previously in the genus Phalangista) is a nocturnal, semiarboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, native to Australia and invasive in New Zealand, and the second-largest of the possums.
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Common pheasant
The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) is a bird in the pheasant family (Phasianidae).
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Common starling
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling in North America and simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
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Conservation genetics
Conservation genetics is an interdisciplinary subfield of population genetics that aims to understand the dynamics of genes in a population for the purpose of natural resource management, conservation of genetic diversity, and the prevention of species extinction.
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Ctenophora
Ctenophora (ctenophore) comprise a phylum of marine invertebrates, commonly known as comb jellies, that inhabit sea waters worldwide.
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Cuban tree frog
The Cuban tree frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) is a large species of tree frog that is native to Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Cayman Islands; but has become invasive in several other places around the Americas.
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Daphnia
Daphnia is a genus of small planktonic crustaceans, in length.
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Diplostraca
The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, is a superorder of small, mostly freshwater crustaceans, most of which feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter, though some forms are predatory.
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Directed panspermia
Directed panspermia is a type of panspermia that implies the deliberate transport of microorganisms into space to be used as introduced species on other astronomical objects.
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Dog
The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.
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Domestic duck
Domestic ducks (mainly mallard, Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, with some Muscovy ducks, Cairina moschata domestica) are ducks that have been domesticated and raised for meat and eggs.
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Dominica
Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.
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Donkey
The donkey or ass is a domesticated equine.
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Dung beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces.
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Eastern gray squirrel
The eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known, particularly outside of North America, as simply the grey squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
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Equidae
Equidae (sometimes known as the horse family) is the taxonomic family of horses and related animals, including the extant horses, asses, and zebras, and many other species known only from fossils.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
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Eugene Schieffelin
Eugene Schieffelin (January 29, 1827 – August 15, 1906) was an American amateur ornithologist who belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
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Eurasian carp
The Eurasian carp or European carp (Cyprinus carpio), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
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Feral
A feral animal or plant is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
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Food web
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
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Fox
Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.
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Genetic diversity
Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.
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Genetic pollution
Genetic pollution is a term for uncontrolled gene flow into wild populations.
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Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
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Glossary of invasion biology terms
The need for a clearly defined and consistent invasion biology terminology has been acknowledged by many sources. Introduced species and Glossary of invasion biology terms are ecology terminology.
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
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Great Britain
Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.
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Green iguana
The green iguana (Iguana iguana), also known as the American iguana or the common green iguana, is a large, arboreal, mostly herbivorous species of lizard of the genus Iguana.
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Guppy
The guppy (Poecilia reticulata), also known as millionfish or the rainbow fish, is one of the world's most widely distributed tropical fish and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species.
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Harmonia axyridis
Harmonia axyridis is a large lady beetle or ladybug species that is most commonly known as the harlequin, Asian, or multicoloured Asian lady beetle.
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Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
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Hemerochory
Hemerochory (Ancient Greek ἥμερος, hemeros: 'tame, ennobled, cultivated, cultivated' and Greek χωρίς choris: separate, isolated), or anthropochory, is the distribution of cultivated plants or their seeds and cuttings, consciously or unconsciously, by humans into an area that they could not colonize through their natural mechanisms of spread, but are able to maintain themselves without specific human help in their new habitat.
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Honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus Apis of the bee clade, all native to mainland Afro-Eurasia.
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Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal.
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House sparrow
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.
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Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
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Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.
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Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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Iguana
Iguana is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Interspecific competition
Interspecific competition, in ecology, is a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resources in an ecosystem (e.g. food or living space).
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Invasive species
An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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Kiwifruit
Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside New Zealand and Australia) or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia.
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Kudzu
Kudzu, also called Japanese arrowroot or Chinese arrowroot, is a group of climbing, coiling, and trailing deciduous perennial vines native to much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and some Pacific islands, but invasive in many parts of the world, primarily North America.
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Landscaping
Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including the following.
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Lesser Antilles
The Lesser Antilles are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea.
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Livestock
Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Lymantria dispar
Lymantria dispar, also known as the gypsy moth or the spongy moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae native to Europe and Asia.
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Lythrum salicaria
Lythrum salicaria or purple loosestrifeFlora of NW Europe: is a flowering plant belonging to the family Lythraceae.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain.
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Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Mnemiopsis
Mnemiopsis leidyi, the warty comb jelly or sea walnut, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore (comb jelly).
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Monaco
Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Monsanto
The Monsanto Company was an American agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology corporation founded in 1901 and headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
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Moon landing
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.
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Muskrat
The muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia and South America.
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Mycorrhizal network
Mycorrhizal associations have profoundly impacted the evolution of plant life on Earth ever since the initial adaptation of plant life to land.
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Nativar
A nativar is a horticulturally bred strain of a plant species, and distinguishes them from their natively bred counterparts.
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Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history. Introduced species and native species are ecology terminology.
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Naturalisation (biology)
Naturalisation (or naturalization) is the ecological phenomenon through which a species, taxon, or population of exotic (as opposed to native) origin integrates into a given ecosystem, becoming capable of reproducing and growing in it, and proceeds to disseminate spontaneously. Introduced species and Naturalisation (biology) are ecology terminology.
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Neophyte (botany)
In botany, a neophyte (from Greek νέος (néos) "new" and φυτόν (phutón) "plant") is a plant species which is not native to a geographical region and was introduced in recent history.
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Nerium
Nerium oleander, commonly known as oleander or rosebay, is a shrub or small tree cultivated worldwide in temperate and subtropical areas as an ornamental and landscaping plant.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Nutria
The nutria or coypu (Myocastor coypus) is a herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent from South America.
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Oceanic dispersal
Oceanic dispersal is a type of biological dispersal that occurs when terrestrial organisms transfer from one land mass to another by way of a sea crossing.
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Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.
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Ornamental plant
Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space.
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Parrot
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.
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Peach
The peach (Prunus persica) is a deciduous tree first domesticated and cultivated in Zhejiang province of Eastern China.
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Pet
A pet, or companion animal, is an animal kept primarily for a person's company or entertainment rather than as a working animal, livestock, or a laboratory animal.
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Phyla canescens
Phyla canescens is a species of perennial herbaceous plant in the family Verbenaceae, native to South America.
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Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
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Pinus radiata
Pinus radiata (syn. Pinus insignis), the Monterey pine, insignis pine or radiata pine, is a species of pine native to the Central Coast of California and Mexico (on Guadalupe Island and Cedros island).
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Planetary habitability
Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain environments hospitable to life.
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Planetary-mass object
A planetary-mass object (PMO), planemo, or planetary body is, by geophysical definition of celestial objects, any celestial object massive enough to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium, but not enough to sustain core fusion like a star.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Podarcis muralis
Podarcis muralis (common wall lizard) is a species of lizard with a large distribution in Europe and well-established introduced populations in North America, where it is also called the European wall lizard.
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Pond slider
The pond slider (Trachemys scripta) is a species of common, medium-sized, semiaquatic turtle.
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Pontederia crassipes
Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range.
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Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.
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Population size
In population genetics and population ecology, population size (usually denoted N) is a countable quantity representing the number of individual organisms in a population.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
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Pumpkin
A pumpkin is a cultivated winter squash in the genus Cucurbita.
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Rabbit
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas).
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Rabbits in Australia
European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) were first introduced to Australia in the 18th century with the First Fleet, and later became widespread, because of Thomas Austin.
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Rat
Rats are various medium-sized, long-tailed rodents.
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Red fox
The red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe and Asia, plus parts of North Africa.
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Red kite
The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers.
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Resveratrol
Resveratrol (3,5,4′-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a stilbenoid, a type of natural phenol or polyphenol and a phytoalexin produced by several plants in response to injury or when the plant is under attack by pathogens, such as bacteria or fungi.
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Rewilding
Rewilding is a form of ecological restoration aimed at increasing biodiversity and restoring natural processes.
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Reynoutria japonica
Reynoutria japonica, synonyms Fallopia japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae.
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San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Scinax x-signatus
Scinax x-signatus (common name: Venezuela snouted treefrog or Venezuelan snouted treefrog) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.
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Scorpion
Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
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Seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.
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Silver pheasant
The silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera) is a species of pheasant found in forests, mainly in mountains, of mainland Southeast Asia and eastern and southern China.
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Small Indian mongoose
The small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctata) is a mongoose species native to Iraq and northern India; it has also been introduced to several Caribbean and Pacific islands.
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Snake
Snakes are elongated, limbless reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
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Soybean
The soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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Species distribution
Species distribution, or species dispersion, is the manner in which a biological taxon is spatially arranged. Introduced species and species distribution are ecology terminology.
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Spider
Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk.
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Steatoda nobilis
Steatoda nobilis is a spider in the genus Steatoda, known in the United Kingdom as the noble false widow, as it superficially resembles and is frequently mistaken for the black widow and other spiders in the genus Latrodectus.
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Suez Canal
The Suez Canal (قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest of Egypt).
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Tamarix
The genus Tamarix (tamarisk, salt cedar, taray) is composed of about 50–60 species of flowering plants in the family Tamaricaceae, native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa.
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Taraxacum
Taraxacum is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, which consists of species commonly known as dandelions.
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Thomas Austin (pastoralist)
Thomas Austin (181515 December 1871) was an English settler in Australia who is generally noted for the introduction of rabbits into Australia in 1859, even though rabbits had been brought previously to Australia by the First Fleet in 1788.
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Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
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Tiger salamander
The tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) is a species of mole salamander and one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in North America.
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Tomato
The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Uncrewed spacecraft
Uncrewed spacecraft or robotic spacecraft are spacecraft without people on board.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is a species of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobe and comma-shaped bacteria.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Water (journal)
Water is a scientific journal that covers water science and technology research.
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West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Western honey bee
The western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most common of the 7–12 species of honey bees worldwide.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a staple food around the world.
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Wild turkey
The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) is an upland game bird native to North America, one of two extant species of turkey and the heaviest member of the order Galliformes.
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Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
The Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom implemented to comply with European Council Directive 79/409/EEC on the conservation of wild birds.
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Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.
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Zebra mussel
The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small freshwater mussel.
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Zygosity
Zygosity (the noun, zygote, is from the Greek "yoked," from "yoke") is the degree to which both copies of a chromosome or gene have the same genetic sequence.
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References
Also known as Adventive, Adventive species, Alien (biology), Alien organism, Alien species, Exotic Species, Exotic organism, Exotic pest, Exotic plant, Exotic plants, Foreign species, Immigrant species, Introduced animal, Introduced animals, Introduced birds, Introduced mammal, Introduced organism, Introduced pest, Introduced plant, Introduced predators, Neobiota, Neozoon, Non indigenous species, Non-indigenous, Non-indigenous organism, Non-indigenous species, Non-native species, Nonindigenous species, Nonnative species, Species introduction, Xenophyte.