Global Invasions Network

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GIN participants set to meet October 11-13 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Mark is working on reserving a block of rooms for us at local hotels, and he is also planning to organize some field trips after our meeting. Event: Meeting When: 11-October 2010 until 15-October 2010 Where: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama [...]

Student receives training in genetic and demographic techniques to develop research collaboration. South African student Jessica Dawson will be visiting RCN members Whitman Miller and Gregory Ruiz. She will be working largely with postdoc April Blakeslee. Her home base while she is in the US will be SERC, where she will receive lab training–dissecting Littorina [...]

Love them or hate them, zebra mussels are having a big effect on the ecosystems that they invade. While the bivalves clarify freshwater lakes and rivers, they also smother surfaces, clog pipes and wipe out indigenous mussel populations. The zebra mussels that have wreaked ecological havoc on the Great Lakes are harder to find these [...]

A workshop on the ecology and evolution of invasive species ESA Workshop – WK 15 The workshop includes six invited talks, followed by a 30-40 minute discussion session. Details are provided below and abstracts are available via the ESA website. Space is limited and filling up fast so we wanted to give you a chance [...]