RT @cl_marino
🚨Paper out!⤵️
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.0196
We studied the traits of exotic and threatened #birds with @Celine_Bellard at the @BioM_UPS team. Check the paper for details on the functional characterization of #alien species v. threatened ones!
#PhD #biodiversity #biologicalinvasion

Managing invasive non-native species, including invasive pathogens, is crucial for protecting a region that has been evolutionarily isolated for millions of years. I wrote a Science letter about this 14 years, ago - not from the point of view of an expert on Antarctic ecosystems (which I'm not), but as someone who understands #biologicalinvasion as a form of global change: https://redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ricciardi2008Antarctica.pdf #invasivespecies #alienspecies

@Ecoinvasions

Not quite as spectacular as rabbits:

the #biologicalinvasion of #Allium paradoxum at the #BotanicalGarden #Copenhagen,
first introduced to the garden from Central Asia/Russia,
on only a small patch of land.
It now populates large parts of the #garden.

https://write.less.dk/index.php/2017/04/15/the-strange-wild-garlic-at-the-botanical-gardens-copenhagen/

A. paradoxum, the few-flowered garlic or few-flowered leek – Danish: Spøjsløg (the “funny” onion), german: Wunderlauch –
has been successful all over Europe - see
https://www.gbif.org/species/2857017

@plants #botany

An iconic #biologicalinvasion. We very rarely know the date of a private introduction - and just as rarely, the precise number & origin of animals released. In this case, 24 European rabbits were introduced to Australia by an estate owner (the whims of the idle rich!) on Christmas Eve 1859.

Ironically, in the same year Darwin warned "Let it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single introduced tree or mammal has been shown to be." (Origin of Species, Chap IV) https://english.elpais.com/society/2022-09-29/it-was-a-perfect-storm-how-13-rabbits-caused-the-largest-biological-invasion-in-history.html

So, i am a #termite biologist at UF, focusing on #ecology, #evolution, #symbiosis, #behavior, #biologicalinvasion, and #control of termites .

I am a bit all other the place in term of research topics, as i just use termites as a model to answer fun questions.

Each year, I start hundreds of new colonies in the lab from alate dispersal flights in the field. After a decade doing that, i now rear more than 25 million termites in the lab. It's for #research. I swear.