The 17-foot, 140-pound female snake — an invasive species devastating to native wildlife — was discovered through a new tracking approach that leans on technology and the laws of attraction.
Although not all species devastate the communities they enter, a closer look at what happened on Guam after the introduction of the brown tree snake (Boiga irregularis) illustrates just how damaging a species can be.
The discovery of a single specimen of Sirex noctilio Fabricius, an Old World woodwasp, raises red flags across the nation because the invasive insect species has devastated up to 80percentt of pine trees in areas of New Zealand, Australia, South America and South Africa.
POPULATIONS of marine mammals and seabirds on the coast of Peru, including an endangered penguin species, were devastated in the now-fading El Nino, the strongest one of the century.
Some species have devastated commercial fishing of clams and crabs.
Many non-natives and invasive species cause devastating and irreversible damage to their new ecosystem.
In addition, customs agencies and other groups tasked with monitoring imported and exported goods could use it to justify stricter controls and thereby reduce the chances that an accidental release of an invasive species would devastate crops, severely weaken native ecosystems, or result in a disease outbreak.
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Although infectious diseases contribute to the extinct and critically endangered UICN red list status for only 12% of listed species [11], devastating effect of diseases on population demography have been reported for various taxa (see review in [12]).
But the lakes still suffer — from lingering industrial pollution, toxics like mercury, deteriorating wetlands and, more recently, invasive species that have devastated the fishing industry and fouled shorelines.
