Invasive species

non-native organism causing damage to an established environment

species of alga

any animal that creates, significantly modifies, maintains or destroys a habitat

controversial term for uncontrolled dispersal of contaminated altered genes from genetically engineered organisms to natural organisms

plants that are alien to the native flora

online, open access reference work covering recognition, biology, distribution, impact, and management of invasive plants and animals

thumb|270px|poppy|Poppies are hemerochoric plants that belong to the [[archaeophytes.]] Hemerochory (Ancient Greek ἥμερος, hemeros: 'tame, ennobled, cultivated, cultivated' and Greek χωρίς choris: separate, isolated), or anthropochory, is the distribution of cultivated plants or their seeds and cuttings, consciously or unconsciously, by humans into an area that they could not colonize through their natural mechanisms of spread, but are able to maintain themselves without specific human help in their new habitat.

increase of invasive organisms caused by climate change

Garden plants escaping cultivation to wild

species of plant

description of how humans introduce invasive specieis and other biological organisms into an environment