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The GB Non-native Species Secretariat (NNSS) has responsibility for helping to coordinate the approach to invasive non-native species in Great Britain. The NNSS is responsible to a Programme Board which represents the relevant governments and agencies of England, Scotland and Wales.
Learn what non-native species are, how they affect biodiversity and human interests, and how to evaluate them. Explore different perspectives and examples of non-native species, from Kudzu to wolves, and their benefits and costs.
Most are harmless, but around 10-15% spread and become invasive non-native species which harm wildlife and the environment, are costly to the economy and can even impact on our health and way of life. These pages provide further information and resources on non-native species.
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
29 de abr. de 2014 · We argue that explicitly defining the impact of non-native species will promote progress toward a better understanding of the implications of changes to biodiversity and ecosystems caused by non-native species; help disentangle which aspects of scientific debates about non-native species are due to disparate definitions and which ...
- Jonathan M Jeschke, Sven Bacher, Tim M Blackburn, Jaimie T A Dick, Franz Essl, Thomas Evans, Mirijam...
- 10.1111/cobi.12299
- 2014
- Conserv Biol. 2014 Oct; 28(5): 1188-1194.
13 de mai. de 2024 · Invasive species are nonnative species that disrupt the ecosystems they colonize. Learn about the causes, effects, and solutions of invasive species from Britannica's experts.
1 de dez. de 2022 · The study of non-native species has predominantly focused on quantifying the costs they inflict on people and nature. Recent decades have witnessed scientists acknowledging, and over the past few years increasingly investigating, the benefits that non-native species may provide.
