Invasive Species - National Geographic Society
网页2024年8月29日 · An invasive species is an organism that is not indigenous, or native, to a particular area. Invasive species can cause great economic and environmental harm to the new area. Not all non-native species are invasive.
Invasive Species Profiles List
网页The Invasive Species Profiles List is a overview of all invasive species profiles included on our Web site with primary common and scientific names, and is searchable. If you prefer to view our profiles by species type and habitat, see our main Species Profiles page.
Invasive species - Wikipedia
网页An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment. [2] Invasive species adversely affect habitats and bioregions, causing ecological, environmental, and/or economic damage.
Invasive Species - National Wildlife Federation
网页An invasive species can be any kind of living organism—an amphibian (like the cane toad), plant, insect, fish, fungus, bacteria, or even an organism’s seeds or eggs—that is not native to an ecosystem and causes harm. They can harm the environment, the economy, or even human health.
What are Invasive Species?
网页Invasive species can lead to the extinction of native plants and animals, destroy biodiversity, and permanently alter habitats. See our impacts section to learn more about the various impacts of invasive species -- economic and social, environmental and ecological, and human health.
Invasive species | Description, Characteristics, Examples, Solutions ...
网页2024年9月12日 · invasive species, any nonnative species that significantly modifies or disrupts the ecosystems it colonizes. Such species may arrive in new areas through natural migration, but they are often introduced by the activities of other species.
Invasive Alien Species - IUCN
网页2023年5月24日 · Invasive alien species are animals, plants or other organisms that are introduced by humans, either intentionally or accidentally, into places outside of their natural range, negatively impacting native biodiversity, ecosystem services or …
National Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)
网页The gateway to invasive species information; covering federal, state, local, and international sources. Invasive species are plants, animals, or pathogens that are non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration, …
Invasive species facts and information - National Geographic
网页2019年6月5日 · When these non-native species take root in new ecosystems and start causing trouble, they become known as invasive species.
People and Invasive Species - National Geographic Society
网页2023年10月19日 · An invasive species is commonly defined as any living organism not native to an area that causes economic or environmental harm, or is damaging to human health. It is worth noting that not all introduced species are invasive. In fact, they can sometimes be beneficial.