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Exotic alien species

  • When Apr 22, 2009 12:01 AM to Apr 24, 2009 12:05 AM (GMT+0 / UTC0)
  • Where Syracuse
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More than 10,000 exotic alien species in Europe in 1000 and beyond those that cause impacts. The Canada goose, the zebra mussel, the brook trout, the common wood-sorrel and nutria, are among the 100 worst invaders of our ecosystems.
These are the results of a study published on-line on "Frontiers of Ecology and Environment" - the prestigious journal of the American Society of Ecology - an article on the impacts caused by invasive species, written by more than one person of a group of European researchers, including which Piero Genovesi from ISPRA, president of the IUCN group specialized on invasive alien species.

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