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  2. Invasive species - Wikipedia

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    An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. [2] Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions , causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.

  3. Invasibility - Wikipedia

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    Alien species, or species that are not native, invade habitats and alter ecosystems around the world. Invasive species are only considered invasive if they are able to survive and sustain themselves in their new environment. [1] A habitat and the environment around it has natural flaws that make them vulnerable to invasive species. [1]

  4. Invader potential - Wikipedia

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    By understanding the qualitative and quantitative measures of a given invasive species probability to invade a given ecosystem, researchers can hypothesize which species will impact which environments. The addition, or removal, of a species from an ecosystem can cause drastic changes to environmental factors as well as the community's food web.

  5. Mitigating the impacts of invasive species in Texas - AOL

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    Invasive species have two main characteristics: they are non-native to an ecosystem and their introduction causes or is likely to cause harm to the economy, environment or human health. "Invasive ...

  6. Edge effects - Wikipedia

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    The changes in temperature, humidity and light levels promote invasion of non-forest species, including invasive species. The overall effect of these fragment processes is that all forest fragments tend to lose native biodiversity depending on fragment size and shape, isolation from other forest areas, and the forest matrix.

  7. Genetic pollution - Wikipedia

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    An introduced species is one that is not native to a given population that is either intentionally or accidentally brought into a given ecosystem. Effects of introduction are highly variable, but if an introduced species has a major negative impact on its new environment, it can be considered an invasive species.

  8. Overabundant species - Wikipedia

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    However, the consequent degree of the impact on the local ecosystem once a species becomes overabundant is case dependent as some invasive species, like the brown tree snake in Guam, have caused numerous extinctions of native fauna, while others have had fewer damaging impacts on the environment. [12] Costs of invasive species are estimated at ...

  9. Biological pollution - Wikipedia

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    Biological pollution (impacts or bio pollution) is the impact of humanity's actions on the quality of aquatic and terrestrial environment. Specifically, biological pollution is the introduction of non-indigenous and invasive species, [ 1 ] otherwise known as Invasive Alien Species (IAS).