‘Flying barnacles’: implications for the spread of non-indigenous species

'Flying barnacles': implications for the spread of non-indigenous species.

The presence of adult barnacles of Fistulobalanus pallidus (Darwin) and Fistulobalanus albicostatus (Pilsbry) attached to field-readable plastic leg rings on the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in Northern Europe is reported. L. fuscus is a long-distance palaearctic migrant, breeding in temperate areas spreading widely over inland and marine habitats outside the breeding season. The speci...

Patterns of Ship-borne Species Spread: A Clustering Approach for Risk Assessment and Management of Non-indigenous Species Spread

The spread of non-indigenous species (NIS) through the global shipping network (GSN) has enormous ecological and economic cost throughout the world. Previous attempts at quantifying NIS invasions have mostly taken “bottom-up” approaches that eventually require the use of multiple simplifying assumptions due to insufficiency and/or uncertainty of available data. By modeling implicit species exch...

Non-Pharmacologic Treatments for Fear of Flying

The purpose of the present survey was to review the important Non-pharmacologic treatments for fear of flying up to the present. This study is in the same way as some studies. Accordingly, some Non-pharmacologic treatments for fear of flying were assessed through this systematic review article. The general conclusion from the information provided by the  former studies, shows that a growing num...

The Ongoing Shift of Mediterranean Coastal Fish Assemblages and the Spread of Non-Indigenous Species

Prediction and error in multi-stage models for spread of aquatic non-indigenous species

Invasions of ecosystems by non-indigenous species (NIS) are occurring at increasing rates globally (Gollasch, 2006; Ricciardi, 2007; Hulme, 2009). Proactive efforts to reduce invasions are the most cost-effective management option (e.g. Leung et al., 2002; Finnoff et al., 2007), although managers may be unwilling to ‘risk’ a preventative approach because of the high uncertainty inherent in prev...