Pest and climate change ebulletin
Welcome to Double Trouble, our regular ebulletin highlighting the combined dangers of climate change and invasive species, many of which are expected to thrive in the extreme weather events already taking place around the world.
We hope our ebulletin will help increase awareness of the growing need to recognise invasive species as a major component of the climate change problem, and that they warrant more publicity, research focus, policy development, and funding for prevention and control.
Latest edition, June 2010
Top story: Weeds in Henry David Thorou's famous Concord woods are responding to climate change more rapidly than native plants by dramatically adjusting their flowering time.
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- Warming could dramatically alter South Australia’s weed map
- Fast-moving species leave pathogens for dead
- East Australian Current bolsters Tasmania's invading sea urchin numbers
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Edition 4, February 2010
Top story: A highly invasive snail found in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin is expected to become more dominant under climate change because of its greater tolerance for higher temperatures than a native snail it seems to be replacing.
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Edition 3, September 2009
Top story: Two US invasion biologists have issued a strong warning about the risks of moving declining species to new locations in an attempt to save them from the effects of climate change, dubbing such moves ‘planned invasions’.
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Edition 2, May 2009
Top story: Some of Australia’s weeds and pest animals could turn into climate change “super invaders” if we continue to import new strains of already established invasive species.
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Edition 1, February 2009
Top story: The Invasive Species Council has sounded alarm bells about the potential for serious weed problems to emerge from the recent Victorian bushfires.
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