Sydney Harbour is a hotspot for diversity. However, as with estuaries worldwide, its diversity
and functioning faces increasing threats from urbanisation. This is the first synthesis of …

Aim We examine the regional dominance of California as a beachhead for marine biological
invasions in western North America and assess the relative contribution of different transfer …

Abstract Earth's Critical Zone sustains terrestrial life and consists of the thin planetary
surface layer between unaltered rock and the atmospheric boundary. Within this zone, flows …

The evolutionary trajectories associated with demographic, genetic and spatial
disequilibrium have become an issue of growing interest in population biology. Invasive …

Contributions from the field of population biology hold promise for understanding and
managing invasiveness; invasive species also offer excellent opportunities to study basic …

It is generally accepted that resistance genes acquired by human pathogens through
horizontal gene transfer originated in environmental, non-pathogenic bacteria. As a …

We succinctly review and document new cases of diseases of the skin and the skeletal
system and external traumata in cetaceans from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina …

To reduce the global spread of invasive aquatic species, international regulations will soon
require reductions of the number of organisms in ballast water discharged by ships. For this …

Aquaculture has been practiced for some millennia. The speed and access of different
transport modes in the spread of cultured species, their pests, parasites, diseases and …

The movement of populations shapes the patterns and distribution of infectious diseases
globally. The consequences of travel are seen in the traveller and in places and populations …