Marc Kenis, Marie‐Anne Auger‐Rozenberg, Alain Roques, Laura Timms, Christelle Péré, Matthew J.W. Cock, Josef Settele, Sylvie Augustin, Carlos Lopez‐Vaamonde
Alien invasive insects such as gypsy moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, and emerald ash borer continue to disturb the mixed deciduous and hemlock forests of eastern North America by causing wide-scale defoliation, decline and/or mortality of their hosts. Some of the most devastating species are spreading in “defense free space”, causing extensive mortality of hosts that are inherently susceptible, perh...... hiện toàn bộ
Research on the impacts of house mice Mus musculus introduced to islands is patchy across most of the species’ global range, except on islands of the Southern Ocean. Here we review mouse impacts on Southern Ocean islands’ plants, invertebrates, land birds and seabirds, and describe the kinds of effects that can be expected elsewhere. A key finding is that where mice occur as part of a complex of i...... hiện toàn bộ