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  2. Invasive species - Wikipedia

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    Invasive species can affect human health. With the alteration in ecosystem functionality (due to homogenization of biota communities), invasive species have resulted in negative effects on human well-being, which includes reduced resource availability, unrestrained spread of human diseases, recreational and educational activities, and tourism.

  3. Invasive species costs global economy $423 billion per year ...

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    Last December, the world's governments committed in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to reducing the introduction and establishment of priority invasive species by at least 50 ...

  4. Invasive species in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The economic impacts of invasive species can be difficult to estimate especially when an invasive species does not affect economically important native species. This is partly because of the difficulty in determining the non-use value of native habitats damaged by invasive species and incomplete knowledge of the effects of all of the invasive species present in the U.S. Estimates for the ...

  5. Biodiversity loss - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] Still, it is the general habitat destruction (often for expansion of agriculture), not climate change, that is currently the bigger driver of biodiversity loss. [18] [19] Invasive species and other disturbances have become more common in forests in the last several decades. These tend to be directly or indirectly connected to climate ...

  6. Edge effects - Wikipedia

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    The changes in temperature, humidity and light levels promote invasion of non-forest species, including invasive species. The overall effect of these fragment processes is that all forest fragments tend to lose native biodiversity depending on fragment size and shape, isolation from other forest areas, and the forest matrix. [11]

  7. Human impact on marine life - Wikipedia

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    Human activities affect marine life and marine habitats through overfishing, habitat loss, the introduction of invasive species, ocean pollution, ocean acidification and ocean warming. These impact marine ecosystems and food webs and may result in consequences as yet unrecognised for the biodiversity and continuation of marine life forms. [3]

  8. Climate change and invasive species - Wikipedia

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    Climate change is likely to favour some invasive species and harm others, [3] but few authors have identified specific consequences of climate change for invasive species. [4] As early as 1993, a climate/invasive species interaction was speculated for the alien tree species Maesopsis eminii that spread in the East Usambara mountain forests ...

  9. Invasive species in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Invasive species within the United Arab Emirates are noted as having detrimental effects on endemic species by diminishing biodiversity. [4] [5] For instance, a study for Plant Ecology journal found that sites containing the invasive species Neltuma juliflora had lower biodiversity and indigenous species were displaced. [6]