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  • integral to a forest ecosystem and an invasive species in one country may be ... spread around the world with humans. (See Invasive species.) ...
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  • also are eaten by the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera, including ... genus Aralia). The family includes 254 species of trees, shrubs, lianas ...
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  • rat, have been spread by humans as invasive species into non-native habitats. ... as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species by the Invasive Species ...
    13 KB (2,057 words) - 06:43, 17 July 2022
  • subfamily Felinae. They number about 41 species including large animals ... * Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). 2007. [http://www.issg ...
    12 KB (1,871 words) - 12:24, 30 April 2021
  • Jasmine or Jessamine is any of the more than two hundred species of ... J. fluminense is an invasive species in Hawaii, where it is sometimes ...
    11 KB (1,681 words) - 10:00, 1 April 2024
  • the United States, it has become an invasive species in some southern states. ... United States and has since become an invasive species in much of the state ...
    11 KB (1,724 words) - 19:48, 26 November 2022
  • About 15 species in the Typha genus have been described (Apfelbaum ... (rhizomes). T. minima is the smallest species, being from 0.5 to 1 meter ...
    10 KB (1,542 words) - 15:57, 11 November 2022
  • == Catfish as invasive species == [[Image:Clarias batrachus.jpg|170px ... * Walking catfish, food fish in Asia and invasive species in Florida ...
    17 KB (2,573 words) - 01:37, 13 January 2023
  • the genus Mentha, a taxon of about 25 species of aromatic, almost exclusively ... spicata) are two of the most important commercial species. ...
    17 KB (2,569 words) - 16:11, 9 November 2022
  • as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species by the Invasive Species ... * Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). 2006. Global Invasive ...
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  • is the ceasing of existence of a species or a higher taxonomic unit ... Raup (1991) estimates that 99.9% of all species that have ever existed on ...
    18 KB (2,826 words) - 06:16, 13 September 2023
  • List, this inventory is produced by the Species Survival Commission (SSC ... and fragmentation, pollution, and invasive species are among the direct ...
    17 KB (2,530 words) - 20:34, 7 April 2024
  • with about 300 genera and more than 3,000 species. The earlier name Umbelliferae ... parsnip on their list of noxious weeds or invasive species. ...
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  • a hairy covering on the shell. Many marine species have shells that are dark ... in the world, comprising 185 of the 195 species of bivalves placed on the ...
    14 KB (2,096 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
  • short legs. There are about 27 extant species of foxes spread over about ... As such, they have at times become invasive species. Australia lacks carnivores ...
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  • achieved pest status as a result of being invasive species. ... dorotocephala. Recently, however, the species Schmidtea mediterranea has ...
    7 KB (1,024 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
  • Originally, the name "weasel" was applied to one species ... countryside between weasels and the invasive species mink, depicts the latter ...
    13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
  • general for plants of this genus, and most species have willow as part of their ... There are about 400 species of willow. Willows are found primarily ...
    16 KB (2,517 words) - 21:53, 25 November 2022
  • See Species and subspecies A goat is a member of the genus Capra of ... *Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG). 2007. [http://www.issg ...
    18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
  • is used as the common name for various species of the unrelated genus, ... Chinese cork oak (Quercus variabilis) is a species of oak in the section ...
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