Weeds As Examples Weeds provide good examples to clarify what is meant by an invasive species because most people have a concept of what constitutes a " weed. " Invasion can be thought of as a process that in our example, a plant must go through to become a successful, yet harmful invader. Several barriers must be overcome for a plant to be considered an invasive weed. Invasive weeds are invasi...

the alien polychaetes are widely distributed in the whole mediterranean sea as well as in theegyptian waters. the objective of this study is to highlight the distribution and abundance of the alienpolychaetes along the alexandria coast, their contribution to the total polychaete community and the changesthey caused in the community structure. through monthly sampling polychaetes were collected ...

Interpretation with Alien Expressions

Vast amount of geospatial datasets are now available through numerous public and private organizations. These datasets usually cover different areas, have different accuracy and level of details, and are usually provided in the vector data format, where the latitude and longitude of each object is clearly specified. However, there are scenarios in which the spatial attributes of the objects are...

Invading species often are close relatives, and therefore share many characteristics as a consequence of their common ancestry. This tends to confound studies of invasions, since many irrelevant characteristics are likely to be correlated with a species’ geographic origin (alien or native). We address this problem by using phylogenetically independent comparisons to investigate the habitat char...