Sentence examples for exotic invaders from inspiring English sources

One of the first exotic invaders of the Great Lakes was the sea lamprey, an eel-like fish that preys on lake trout populations.

If the exotic invaders on this list haven't appeared yet in a town near you, they may do so soon, courtesy of increased human travel and climate change two factors thought to play a major role in the spread of infectious agents and the animals that carry them.

(Both the Greek and Latin texts are presented here). The Apocalypse enjoyed immense popularity throughout the Middle Ages, informing expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders like the Mongols and Turks, and even the legendary versions of the life of Alexander the Great.

In the most comprehensive analysis to date, to be published in Friday's BioScience, researchers have found that nearly half of species on the brink of extinction were put there in part by exotic invaders often introduced into new habitats by people.

There has been one reason for optimism, however: ecologists have long believed that landscapes with lots of different species should be more resistant to exotic invaders, since their panoply of species types maximizes the use of resources like nitrogen and sunlight, and limits the availability of these resources to weeds.

Island restoration techniques, pioneered by New Zealand, enable the removal of exotic invaders from increasingly large islands.

It is a second exotic invader called the water chestnut, a floating plant that produces spiny seed pods that can pierce a rubber sole and grows so densely that some boats cannot go through it.

Once perceived by the city as an exotic invader that should be rooted out, the ailanthus is now under attack by nature itself -- parasites and fungi have infected thousands of trees in recent years.

Soil samples were collected from 5 sites in Romania, where C. maculosa is native, and 5 sites in Montana where C. maculosa is an aggressive exotic invader.

We show that whereas in the past the exotic invader Middle East-Asia Minor 1 was predominant across China, another newer invader Mediterranean is now the dominant species in the Yangtze River Valley and eastern coastal areas, and Middle East-Asia Minor 1 is now predominant only in the south and south eastern coastal areas.

Some invasions certainly follow the temporal pattern of an initial acute phase after which the abundance of the exotic invader declines and it becomes a non-dominant member of the ecosystem.