Climate match is key to predict range expansion of the world's worst invasive terrestrial vertebrates

Y Du, X Wang, S Ashraf, W Tu, Y Xi, R Cui… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the determinants of the range expansion of invasive alien species is crucial
for developing effective prevention and control strategies. Nevertheless, we still lack a global …

Alien animal introductions in Iberian inland waters: An update and analysis

R Muñoz-Mas, E García-Berthou - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Inland waters provide innumerable ecosystem services and for this reason are among the
most negatively impacted ecosystems worldwide. This is also the case with invasive alien …

A New Invasion of the Common Slider on a Mediterranean Island (Lesvos, Greece): A Potential Threat to Native Terrapin Populations?

A Christopoulos, YG Zevgolis - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Island wetlands are considered crucial to biodiversity due to their unique ecological,
biogeographical, and socioeconomic dynamics. However, these habitat types are …

Rarely naturalized, but widespread and even invasive: the paradox of a popular pet terrapin expansion in Eurasia

A Reshetnikov, M Zibrova, D Ayaz, V Tsurkan - NeoBiota, 2023 - ibn.idsi.md
Rezumat The North American terrapin, the red-eared slider, has globally recognized
invasive status. We built a new extensive database using our own original and literature …

Patterns and drivers of aquarium pet discharge in the wild

F Banha, A Diniz, PM Anastácio - Ecological Indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Aquarium pets release is an important vector for invasive species establishment in
freshwater ecosystems. Here the perceptions and risk behaviors associated to this vector …

Alien Freshwater Turtles in Greece: Citizen Science Reveals the Hydra-Headed Issue of the Pet Turtle Trade

K Kalaentzis, C Kazilas, I Strachinis, E Tzoras… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Citizen science is emerging as a powerful tool for the early detection of biological invasions.
The exotic pet trade has been deemed as the most significant cause of establishment for …

Nesting ecology and confirmed breeding of the invasive pond slider Trachemys scripta in an urban environment, Romania

G Fănaru, S Petrovan, RI Băncilă, MG Vizireanu… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
The pond slider (Trachemys scripta) is a major invasive species in freshwater habitats
across the world. For decades, the main cause of individuals' occurrences in the wild was …

[PDF][PDF] Predation of a live duckling (Anas platyrhynchos) by Trachemys scripta: concerns for native avifauna in the non-native range of this widely established turtle?

AP Salerno, MP van den Burg - Herpetology Notes, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Andrés Pérez Salerno & Matthijs P. van den Burg 46 therein), similar to scavenging by other
turtles on other vertebrates (Lindeman, 2000; Burroughs et al., 2014). A literature review …

[PDF][PDF] Distribution of two invasive alien species of Union concern in Cyprus inland waters.

A Papatheodoulou, AF Martinou, P Klonis… - BioInvasions …, 2021 - reabic.net
Spatial baseline distribution information on the presence of the freshwater invasive alien
species pond slider Trachemys scripta and the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii, in …

[PDF][PDF] Successful reproduction of feral Trachemys scripta (Schoepff, 1792) in an inland wetland of the Veneto region, Le Basse del Brenta, Italy

M Liuzzo, E Fantinato, S Malavasi - Herpetology Notes, 2023 - biotaxa.org
L.(Fantinato et al., 2016). The nest site was located almost 1 m from a walking path and 15 m
away from a eutrophic lake of 3094 m2, newly created in 2017 after the flooding of a …