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The list of vascular plants for the city of Toronto

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2021
1. Urban areas have become epicentres for applied ecological and conservation research and policy. Yet, most urban areas have surprisingly little consolidated information about their biota, including species‐at‐risk and invasive species. 2.
Marc W. Cadotte
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Non-indigenous benthic fishes as new hosts for Bucephalus polymorphus Baer, 1827 (Digenea: Bucephalidae) in the Vistula River basin, Poland

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2011
Two Ponto-Caspian gobiid species, the racer goby, Babka gymnotrachelus, and the monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis, the introduced fishes in the Vistula River, Poland, were found being infected with metacercariae of Bucephalus
Kvach Y., Mierzejewska K.
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Isotopic Overlap of Invasive and Native Consumers in the Food Web of Lake Trasimeno (Central Italy)

Biology, 2023
An advanced characterization of the trophic niche of non-indigenous species (NIS) may provide useful information on their ecological impact on invaded communities.
Davide Cicala, Maria Teresa Guerra, Roberta Bardelli, Cristina Di Muri, Alessandro Ludovisi, Salvatrice Vizzini, Giorgio Mancinelli   +6 more
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Non-indigenous invertebrates, fish and macrophytes in Lake Garda (Italy)

Journal of Limnology, 2011
As observed in many countries, lakes are involved in an important process of colonization by non-indigenous species (NIS). Since 1725, 37 species of non-indigenous fish, invertebrates and macrophytes have been recorded in Lake Garda, the largest Italian ...
Cristina CAPPELLETTI, Francesca CIUTTI, Simone CIANFANELLI, Maria Elena BELTRAMI, Ivano CONFORTINI   +4 more
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First Record of the Alien Species Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 in Fresh Waters of Sardinia and Insight into Its Genetic Variability

Life, 2021
In the fresh waters of Sardinia (Italy), the non-indigenous crayfish species Procambarus clarkii has been reported from 2005, but, starting from 2019, there have been several reports of a new non-indigenous crayfish in southern and central areas of this ...
Daria Sanna, Ilenia Azzena, Fabio Scarpa, Piero Cossu, Angela Pira, Flavio Gagliardi, Marco Casu   +6 more
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Invasive Ponto-Caspian amphipods and fish increase the distribution range of the acanthocephalan Pomphorhynchus tereticollis in the river Rhine. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Non-indigenous species that become invasive are one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss worldwide. In various freshwater systems in Europe, populations of native amphipods and fish are progressively displaced by highly adaptive non-indigenous ...
Sebastian Emde, Sonja Rueckert, Harry W Palm, Sven Klimpel   +3 more
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Pedagogical adaptation of indigenous and non-indigenous species in Biology: experiences from teaching classification of living things in Tanzania

Science Education Quarterly
This study examined teachers’ pedagogical strategies for adapting non-indigenous and indigenous species in teaching the classification of living things in Biology. The research was guided by connectivism learning theory. Questionnaires were administered
Magdalena Sasmos Mkeng'e, Prosper Gabrieli, Huruma Olofea Bwagilo   +2 more
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Crayfish distribution updating in central Italy [PDF]

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2009
Introductions of non-indigenous crayfish have received great attention from biologists and policy makers during the last decade. Purposes of this study are to update the knowledge about the crayfish distribution in Latium (central Italy), and to show how
M. Scalici, M. Pitzalis, G. Gibertini
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ROUNDTABLE SESSION 2B: NATIONAL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NON-INDIGENOUS AND INDIGENOUS CRAYFISH SPECIES

Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 2002
The main object of the present essay is to summarise some aspects underlying the interactions between non-indigenous (NICS) and indigenous (ICS) crayfish species.
GHERARDI F., SMIETANA P., LAURENT P.
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Benthic non-indigenous species among indigenous species and their habitat preferences in Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

Oceanologia, 2014
To date 11 non-indigenous benthic taxa have been reported in Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea). Five of the 34 taxa forming the soft bottom communities are regarded as non-indigenous to this area.
Urszula Janas, Halina Kendzierska
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