Predictions of the identities and ecological impacts of invasive alien species are critical for
risk assessment, but presently we lack universal and standardized metrics that reliably predict …

The effect of host manipulation by parasites on trophic transmission to final hosts remains
unclear. The transmission benefits gained by manipulative parasites are difficult to assess, and …

Trophically-transmitted parasites often change the phenotype of their intermediate hosts in
ways that increase their vulnerability to definitive hosts, hence favouring transmission. As a “…

The influence of climate change on the ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS)
remains understudied, with deoxygenation of aquatic environments often-overlooked as a …

The invasive Ponto–Caspian amphipod Dikerogammarus villosus strongly impairs the
structure of recipient freshwater communities, mostly through predation of a wide range of …

The importance of potentially interacting factors in organisms responses to a stress are often
ignored or underestimated in ecotoxicology. In laboratory experiments we investigated how …

Invasive species management requires allocation of limited resources towards the proactive
mitigation of those species that could elicit the highest ecological impacts. However, we lack …

Some parasites are expected to have beneficial impacts on wild populations in polluted
environments because of their bioaccumulation potential of pollutants from their hosts. The fate …

Sound emissions from human activities represent a pervasive environmental stressor.
Individual responses in terms of behaviour, physiology or anatomy are well documented but …

Recently, a body of literature has indicated the utility of comparisons among introduced and
native species of their functional responses, that is, the relationship between resource use (…