Anthony Ricciardi

Globalization of the Arctic, driven by declining sea ice cover, is predicted to facilitate bioinvasions across the northern hemisphere.
See our 2017 horizon scan:
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

A reminder. bsky.app/profile/ecoi...

Wild pigs, giant goldfish and bugs that won't die: Invaders 'absolutely everywhere' in Canada How can we manage the species that are devastating Canada's natural ecosystems and shouldn't even be here?

vancouversun.com/feature/wild...

A mathematical exploration of some increasingly worrying trends in peer review. Some sensible recommendations, including encouraging AEs to STOP sending out just about everything for re-review after the first round. It's become systematic and annoying. Editors should make decisions.

A Mysterious Salmon-Killing Affliction is a Mystery No More - bioGraphic In California, scientists tracked the source of a severe vitamin deficiency that’s killing endangered fish.

This exemplifies perfectly an inherent inability to predict eco-evolutionary trajectories. Ecology and evolution used to be called Natural History. In hindsight it is possible to explain what happened, but we often make the mistake to think we can then project what we know to predict the future. 1/

Your lab assistant looks tired.

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This is actually utter 🐂 💩, @aeon.co. For those playing at home, here's why theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca....

Santana and co's arguments have more holes than a block of swiss cheese.

3] Apparently, Santana missed this rebuttal that thoroughly debunks Wallace & Lundgren's study. It was published in January, over a month before Santana's article appeared.
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2] Santana highlights a recent study by Wallach & Lundgren that purports to show that cats & foxes played no significant role in extinction of Australian mammals, leading Santana to confidently claim "It’s unlikely, or even impossible, that these alien predators are the real drivers of extinction."

1] There are too many weak arguments in this article to address in one thread. But none of them are new; they have been repeated over many years - though each has been refuted. Given burgeoning evidence of the role of invasions in biodiversity loss, it's time to confront this anti-science bias.🧵

A thorough deconstruction of a flawed paper. #invasivespecies #bioinvasion

And a nice accessible write up of the paper scienmag.com/from-correla...

One scientist talking to two others. "These days. If you're not a mad scientist, you're not paying attention."

Me. I'm a mad scientist.

(Paul Noth cartoons)

Highly destructive mussel has started to invade the Amazon After ravaging waterways across South America, the fast-spreading species threatens a biodiversity stronghold

The golden mussel, a highly destructive invasive species that began to plague South American waterways decades ago, has reached the Amazon region, threatening some of the richest biodiversity on the planet.
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When feral cats are away, potoroos and bandicoots are more likely to play When feral cats are scarce, potoroos and bandicoots forage more freely, altering their behaviour and chances of survival.

Yet another example. Remove #invasives and improve native fauna activity and survival. #ethology #conservation. @euanritchie.bsky.social theconversation.com/when-feral-c...

Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline.
But what if that baseline has already changed?
In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9)
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Supreme Court to Weigh Oil-Industry Effort to End a Major Climate Suit

“Facts don’t cease to exist because they are ignored,”
—Aldous Huxley

marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... #bioinvasions

Thousands of Alien Species Could Invade the Arctic, Scientists Warn More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

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Scientists raise alarm after discovering overlooked 'victims of invasion': 'Undergoing concerning declines' Experts have found that invasive species have reduced native insect populations by an average of 31% and reduced the number of insect species by 21%.

www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/inv...

Meta-analysis reveals negative but highly variable impacts of invasive alien species across terrestrial insect orders - Nature Communications Insects are crucial for ecosystem functioning but face multiple threats, including invasive alien species. Here the authors quantify impacts of invasive alien species on four insect orders, with effec...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Absolutely outrageous...we received a rejection with this reason.

I'm a big girl and can handle rejections, but this shit is out of control.

Y'all need to start saying yes to reviewer requests. The science is suffering.

The Changing Chemistry of Invasive Death Cap Mushrooms University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

UW–Madison scientists have published new research about the makeup of death cap mushrooms (Amanita phalloides) after learning that its spread across continents has changed the chemistry of the species. 🍄‍🟫

"Rewilding"

Dogs and cats help spread an invasive flatworm species, study reveals A study published in the journal PeerJ, conducted by a researcher from the Institute of Systematics, Evolution and Biodiversity (ISYEB) at the French National Museum of Natural History, in collaborati...

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Functional response experiments have proven to be very useful in predictive risk assessment of nonnative species. However, the interpretation of FR data is affected by the choice of methodologies regarding experimental habitat complexity & model selection. To read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...