Category: Article
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Introduced Plants in Shetland
Guest blog by Paul Harvey, Shetland Amenity Trust Around a third of the species of flowering plants that one might come across in the Shetland countryside are not native to the islands. That’s a staggering 300 or so species that were deliberately, or accidentally, brought into Shetland by humans! The majority of these were brought…
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Monitoring marine non-natives at UHI Shetland
Today we’re exploring the species that get moved around across oceans and continents to be introduced to our coastal seas. As the world becomes increasingly connected by trade, there are more opportunities for species to hitch-hike attached to boats or within ballast water, or be accidentally transported for aquaculture, released from aquariums or as part…
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Welcome to INNS Week!
This week is the UK’s Invasive Species Week which aims to raise awareness of the issues that invasive species can cause and of the work being done to prevent their spread and reduce impacts. So what is an invasive non-native species and why do we worry about them? Non-native species (which can also be called…
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