Never underestimate the ability of the "do-nothing" US Congress to make sure it passes privacy-invasive legislation on its way out the door.
ENM can forecast species' potential geographic ranges with reasonable precision and within the short screening time required by proposed U.S. invasive species legislation.
The EU is currently developing new international legislation on invasive non-native species and this is a major opportunity to prevent future problems.
This is in agreement with the demands of recent European legislation on invasive species (European Parliament and Council of the European Union 2014), demonstrating how modelling frameworks such as ours can offer valuable input for policy and management decisions.
Occupy Wall Street's bold positions on civil rights, as seen in the demonstrations against the NDAA's indefinite detention policies and the invasive CISPA and SOPA legislation, could even be used against the Republican incumbents in primaries who voted for such authoritarian policies.
In 1973 federal legislation made invasive cancer a reportable disease, and in 1992 federal legislation further mandated that all cancer cases be reported to state cancer registries.
Finally, the high court's finding is a vindication of those who were appalled at the government's audacity in rushing such invasive powers through as emergency legislation, over a harried four-day period in July 2014.
Hakea sericea is listed in Portuguese legislation as an invasive species (Ministério do Ambiente 1999), and is considered a potential invader in Spain (Ministerio de Agricultura Alimentacion y Medio Ambiente 2011).
Biosecurity strategies, legislation dealing with invasive species, quarantine, weed surveillance and monitoring all depend on accurate and rapid identification of non-native taxa.
Taxonomic resources are essential for the effective management of invasive plants because biosecurity strategies, legislation dealing with invasive species, quarantine, weed surveillance and monitoring all depend on accurate and rapid identification of non-native taxa, and incorrect identifications can impede ecological studies.
