invasive species

What treatment can I apply to disinfect my dive equipment and inside my wing (without harming the gear, of course!) to prevent contamination of other bodies of water after having been diving for this past week in a freshwater lake that is rife with zebra mussels? I sure don’t want to be...

Hi all, I am presently preparing my lecture notes for a class in conservation biology, and one focus of the class will be invasive species. Hence I read up on the lionfish invasion of the Caribbean, and I am hoping that the topic is interesting for the community here. I wrote my conclusions...

I find this paper interesting. They used DNA fingerprinting to ID the remnants in the stomachs of 50 Lionfish from Sarasota area taken in 2016, and turned out that LF mostly consumed small gobies (2 species, 44.7% of the prey by numbers found), Sand Divers (16.3%), Sand Perch (14.3%), and Bridle...

I've seen reports of BSCF in Florida waters and found some anecdotal evidence from Cozumel divers dating back to 2013, but it is the 1st time I saw it outside the Indo-Pacific myself. Here it is, in 25 ft, at Plaia Grandi, Curacao. It will probably do fine here. With larger predators wiped...

Join our invasive species specialist, Emily Stokes, as she walks us through information on the invasive lionfish and a creative way to help combat them: making jewelry! Tomorrow January 24 at 8PM EST. Sign up now at www.REEF.org/Fishinars

I think this is a great idea, but eradicating lionfish will probably be as easy as eradicating fire ants. Thoughts? Are killer robots the only solution to lionfish plague? - CNN.com