introduced species
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An introduced species is a plant or animal that humans have brought to a new area, either on purpose or by accident. These species can matter a lot because they sometimes compete with native plants and animals, disrupt ecosystems, or cause other unexpected problems in their new homes.
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Research
30,864 papers- Climatic niche shifts in introduced species.Current biology : CB · 2021
- Introduced Species, Disease Ecology, and Biodiversity-Disease Relationships.Trends in ecology & evolution · 2017
- Introduced species: domestic mammals are more significant transmitters of parasites to native mammals than are feral mammals.International journal for parasitology · 2014
- Species clustering, climate effects, and introduced species in 5 million city trees across 63 US cities.eLife · 2022
- Managing invasive species.F1000Research · 2018
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An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally. Non-native species can have various effects on the local ecosystem. Introduced species that become established and spread beyond the place of introduction are considered naturalized. The process of human-caused introduction is distinguished from biological colonization, in which species spread to new areas through "natural" (non-human) means such as storms and rafting. The Latin expression neobiota captures the characteristic that these species are new biota to their environment in terms of established biological network (e.g. food web) relationships. Neobiota can further be divided into neozoa (also: neozoons, sing. neozoon, i.e. animals) and neophyta (plants).