Sentence examples for biological invaders from inspiring English sources

Some researchers are even coming full circle in their thinking about the biological invaders in New York.

Biosphere upsets, ecological disasters, and species extinctions have been far too numerous and their causes too poorly understood to rule out occasional possible contributions from exogenous biological invaders.

Marine environments are threatened by biological invaders that are transported via ship hulls or ballast water at increasing rates around the globe.

Evidence suggests that biological invaders can generally promote positive feedback involving soil microbes (Scott et al. 2001; Callaway et al. 2004; Wolfe and Klironomos 2005; Reinhart and Callaway 2006) and mycorrhizas (Eppstein and Molofsky 2007; Shah and Reshi 2007; Shah et al. 2008a, b), and such feedbacks may promote invasiveness.

Ants are among the most economically [1], [2], [3] and ecologically significant groups of biological invaders [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9].

While only a small fraction of these biological invaders are able to survive and establish a new population [6], some of them cause a dramatic impact in the newly invaded environment, resulting in great ecological damage and economic loss [7] [8].

This is all part of the larger, and computationally intense, problem of drug design -- searching through a vast "space" of possible protein shapes for one that will interrupt the metabolism of a virus or other biological invader.

Given a strongly connected, directed graph of transportation rates, we assume that carriers can transport a biological invader to distant sites.

We call here this phenomenon the invasive bridgehead effect, likening the successful population of a biological invader to a military force that establishes a foothold, historically at the far side of a bridge, prior to further incursions into hostile territories.

These processes include genetic changes in the invader, changes in the biological communities in the invaded ecosystem and changes in abiotic conditions in the system.

Options include poisoning (e.g. herbicides, pesticides, piscicides), manual removal (e.g. pulling plants), capturing and killing (e.g. trapping, shooting), and release of additional species that may provide biological control of the invader.