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InvasionS
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🧑🏽‍🔬🪻Invasion Science (InvasionS) is a multidisciplinary working group of CIBIO's researchers and students focused on biological invasions.

Group Leader: @jrvicente.bsky.social

Visit our website: https://sites.google.com/biopolis.pt/invasions
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InvasionS @invasionscience.bsky.social · 14d
🌿 IUCN launches a public consultation to shape its Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species! A key step for international cooperation on biodiversity loss.

📅 Open until 1 Dec 2025
🔗 Learn more and find out how to participate: iucn.org/news/202509/...

#IUCN #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity
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📢 New paper out!

Led by Rita Bastos & Cheikh Seck, with Joana Vicente, in Global Ecology and Conservation! 🌿

⚡ A BACI-like model reveals how hydropower development impacts raptor populations in NE Portugal.

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

#EcologicalModelling #Hydropower #Biodiversity
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🔥 Update!

The “Forests and Fires: What Future?” Conference will also be available online, and everyone is welcome to join!

🗓️ 3 November 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–12:30
📍 Prof. Eugénio Castro Caldas Auditorium, ESA–IPVC & Online (Teams)

💻 Join here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🔥 New paper out! Led by @cristinaglima.bsky.social and published in @biolinvasions.bsky.social 🌿

We explored how fire & landscape susceptibility shape Acacia dealbata invasion in Portugal using a STELLA dynamic model.

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

#InvasionScience #FireEcology #AcaciaDealbata
October 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🌿 IUCN launches a public consultation to shape its Global Strategy on Invasive Alien Species! A key step for international cooperation on biodiversity loss.

📅 Open until 1 Dec 2025
🔗 Learn more and find out how to participate: iucn.org/news/202509/...

#IUCN #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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👉 Meet a new #InvasiveAlienSpecies, Reynoutria japonica, the Japanese Knotweed!
🟩 It is a rapid clonal spreader, growing vigorously and outcompeting and overshadowing other vegetation
🌱Its clonal expansion via roots (rhizomes) makes it difficult to eradicate and can even damage infrastructure
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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😉 Follow the #SELINAWorkshop taking place this week in Italy!

👌Dedicated to #sustainable use of the #environment through evidence-based decision-making, @selinaproject.bsky.social - is a @horizoneu.bsky.social initiative that started 3 years ago.

ℹ️More on our blog: blog.pensoft.net/2023/03/06/r...
October 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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🦅 Meet Pycnonotus jocosus, the Red-whiskered Bulbul!
🔵 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies may hybridise with native species, cause crop damage, and directly compete with native birds for resources
🍃 There are also concerns that it may facilitate the spread of invasive plants
#UnionConcernSpecies #IAS
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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🔎 The big picture of OneSTOP comes alive in a newly released project video!
🎞️ The video offers a short overview of OneSTOP’s objectives and methodology, as well as the project’s planned results and activities.
👉 Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6E...

#IAS #BioInvasions
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🌾 New open dataset on Cortaderia selloana (pampas grass) in Portugal, led by João Gonçalves!

📊 47,661 plants mapped from UAV imagery at 63 sites under the LIFE STOP CORTADERIA project.

🔗 Access: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#InvasionScience #LIFEStopCortaderia #invasivespecies #UAVmapping #cortaderia
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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🌎 Amidst #LivingData2025, we are introducing Obama nungara, the Obama Flatworm.
🪱 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies is a predator that kills and consumes native earthworms and land snails.
👉 Its introduction can potentially lead to drastic alterations in soil dynamics, impacting the health of ecosystems.
October 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Our PI @jrvicente.bsky.social will speak at the “Forests and Fires: What Future?” Conference!

📅 3 Nov 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–12:30 (CET)
📍 ESA–IPVC, Prof. Eugénio Castro Caldas Auditorium

Join the experts to discuss the future of forests and fires! 🌳🔥

More info 👇

#Forests #Fires #Sustainability
#fogos #florestas #gestãoflorestal #sustentabilidade #incêndiosrurais #invasionscience #esaipvc | InvasionS
🔥 Junta-te a nós para debatermos sobre o futuro das florestas e dos fogos rurais! A nossa PI Joana Vicente marcará presença na Conferência “Floresta e Fogos: que futuro?” 🌲 📅 3 de novembro de 2025 ...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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👀 Our next #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Neogale vison, the American Mink.
🟢 It is a direct competitor with many native EU species that share its ecological niche, such as the European mink, Pyrenean desman, and Water vole
🪱It is also known to be a carrier of pathogens
#UnionConcernSpecies #IASinEurope
October 20, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🪸 Meet a new #InvasiveAlienSpecies, Nanozostera japonica, the Japanese Eelgrass.
🐚 It displaces native seagrass, affecting local shellfish communities.
⚪ Its faster decomposition rate compared to native seagrasses also alters the decomposer community and productivity dynamics in the tidal zone.
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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👉 Our next #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Misgurnus bipartitus, the Northern Weatherfish
🌊 It directly competes with the native protected species M. fossilis in the EU, potentially leading to its extinction and disrupting the ecosystem
🪱 It's a carrier of pathogens and may hybridise with native fish
October 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🔎 Today we are focusing on Mulinia lateralis, the Dwarf Surfclam.
🐚 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies, with high fecundity, has the potential to alter benthic communities and influence the food web.
#IASinEurope #BioInvasions #UnionConcernSpecies
October 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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📢@bmd-project.eu will host a
workshop developing and discussing questions about biodiversity data and how addressing these might enable or enhance natural site management practices and decision-making.
🔗 Learn more and register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
bmd-project.eu Biodiversity Meets Data @bmd-project.eu · 29d
💚 BMD will host an online User Story Workshop on 3 November, 14:00–16:00 (CEST). ➡️ Contributions will support the development of BMD’s Single Access Point.
✍️ Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔎 Explore the upcoming BMD co-design opportunities: bmd-project.eu/news/upcomin...
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🚀Last month, along with #TrIAS and @b-cubed.eu, we published a policy brief on how Belgium has leveraged @gbif.org to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.
🔎 Read more: lnkd.in/d8xX9UAJ
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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🌱 The 17th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions 2025 took place from 2 to 5 September in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was co-hosted by OneSTOP’s partner, Lincoln University (NZ).
🔗 Read more on: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop...
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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🎉The Living Data 2025 Conference is less than a month away!
🔗Learn about the sessions OneSTOP will be part of: onestop-project.eu/news/onestop...
👉Register for the Living Data until 10 October: www.livingdata2025.com/registration...
October 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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🌿 Our PI @jrvicente.bsky.social presented the @onestop-project.eu at Porto Business School, highlighting CamAlien, AMITrap and Air-DNA and the importance of collaboration for tackling biological invasions!

#InvasionS #Technology #Biologicalnvasions
October 3, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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📢 Introducing Misgurnus anguillicaudatus, the Oriental Weatherfish.
💥 This #InvasiveAlienSpecies has the unusual ability to reproduce clonally.
🐠 It can also reduce aquatic insect biodiversity and compete with native fish for food and spawning areas, impacting local ecosystems.
#BioInvasions
October 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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🐌 Today's #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Marisa cornuarietis, the Giant Ramshorn Snail.
🔴 It is an aggressive scavenger capable of consuming most vegetation indiscriminately in areas where it is abundant.
🟤 It can also reproduce rapidly, contributing to its significant impact.
#IASinEurope
September 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🦀 Our next #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Faxonius immunis, the Calico Crayfish
🌊 It may impact aquatic invertebrate communities and outcompete native species where introduced.
🔴It is also a carrier of pathogens, and its burrowing activity has the potential to damage infrastructure
#SpeciesofUnionConcern
September 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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📣 Don't forget we have seminar tomorrow!

🕞 15.30h GMT | 📍BIOPOLIS-CIBIO Auditorium and Online.

Come learn more about Gorgias and his amazing project 🌿
invasionscience.bsky.social InvasionS @invasionscience.bsky.social · Sep 24
📢 Do you want to find out more about Gorgias and his work?

Don’t miss his seminar on 26 Sept, 15:30 GMT (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO Auditorium & Online)!

🔗 Zoom: zoom.us/j/9402853134...
🔑 Passcode: 332211

👉 Learn more: www.cibio.up.pt/en/events/ec...

#seminar #invasionscience #ecologicalmodelling
September 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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💬 Already responded the survey? Share it with your network! 🌾

🔗 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

#survey #urbanplanning #sustainablecities
invasionscience.bsky.social InvasionS @invasionscience.bsky.social · Jul 16
🌿 What terms do European cities use for green corridors—and why?

Survey (4 min) part of Ana Pinheira’s PhD (@UTAD), with Invasions (CIBIO-InBIO), Landscape Lab & Guimarães – European Green Capital 2026. 🌳

📝 forms.office.com/r/dLQQX9Q1dt

#survey #urbanplanning #sustainablecities
August 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM