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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"relative impact potential"”.
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Invasive species: fundamental and applied science
… effective methods to quantify the ecological impacts of established, emerging and future IAS. In this thesis I develop one such method: the Relative Impact Potential (RIP) metric. Based on the effective Comparative Functional Response method, which highlights damaging IAS by comparing their …
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Managing deer: attractants, repellents, invasion modelling and impact assessment
… Isles, is contributing to negative ecological impacts on natural systems, economic losses in forestry, agriculture and transportation, and the transmission of several animal and human diseases. Culling of growing populations is viewed as a necessity in order to protect human and ecological …
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Assessment and prediction of the potential threats of temperature change and invasive species to the sustainability of Northern Irish sea fisheries
… experiments, having highlighted S. canicula as a potential threat to commercial fisheries. A two-by-two experimental design was used to understand how differential acclimation of predator (S. canicula) and amphipod prey species (Echinogammarus marinus; Leach, 1815) affects the functional response …