Invasive species
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An invasive species is an introduced organism that becomes overpopulated and negatively alters its new environment.
Invasive species, also called invasive exotics or simply exotics, is a nomenclature term and categorization phrase used for flora and fauna, and for specific restoration-preservation processes in native habitats, with several definitions.
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See also
- Applied ecology
- Ballast water discharge and the environment
- Beaver eradication in Tierra del Fuego
- Interplanetary contamination (invasives species of microorganisms on other planets)
- Ecosynthesis
- Genetic pollution
- Global Invasive Species Information Network
- Introduced mammals on seabird breeding islands
- Introduced species
- Invader potential
- Invasion biology terminology for a review of the terminology used in invasion biology.
- Invasive earthworms of North America
- Island restoration
- Synanthrope
- List of invasive species
- List of the world's 100 worst invasive species
- Noxious weed
- Pheromone trap
- Invasive species by country
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