Invasive species: The 18-km2 rat trap

A Simple Rat Trap

The Lone-Actor Terrorist and the TRAP-18

An open source sample of 111 lone-actor terrorists from the United States and Europe were studied through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP-18). This investigative template consists of 8 proximal warning behaviors and 10 distal characteristics for active risk management or active monitoring, respectively, by national security threat assessors. Several aspects of...

New Invasive Species in Southern Florida: Gambian Rat (cricetomys Gambianus)

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA (NDP, RLL) Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA (BH, CRO) United States Fish and Wildlife Service, South Florida Ecological Services Office, 1339 20th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32...

18 Plant, Animal, and Microbe Invasive Species in the United States and World

Approximately 50,000 plant, animal, and microbe invasive species are present in the United States, and an estimated 500,000 plant, animal, and microbe invasive species have invaded other nations of the world. Immediately, it should be pointed out that the US and world agriculture depend on introduced food crops and livestock. Approximately 99 % of all crops and livestock in all nations are inte...

A portable trap with electric lead catches up to 75% of an invasive fish species

A novel system combining a trap and pulsed direct current electricity was able to catch up to 75% of tagged invasive sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus in free-flowing streams. Non-target mortality was rare and impacts to non-target migration were minimal; likely because pulsed direct current only needed to be activated at night (7 hours of each day). The system was completely portable and the annu...