This graph has popped up in my timeline a few times over the past few days. It presents a comparison between the biomass of native British breeding birds and the biomass of two species of gamebird, Ring-necked Pheasant and Red-legged Partridge, released into the Britis...

There’s a new paper out that is getting a lot of attention from the invasion biology tweeps in my timeline (Moser et al. 2018. Remoteness promotes biological invasions on

islands worldwide. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1804179115). It explores patterns in the distr...

This week saw the publication of a new paper involving the Blackburn group:

www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1719429115

The research it presents is part of an exciting ongoing collaboration with a large number of scientists interested in biological invasions. The paper...

Over the past few days a number of tweets have crossed my twitter feed that look more or less like this one:

This seems like great news for the trade in wild birds: a 90% decline in numbers in the worldwide trade since the EU ban on bird imports in 2005. However, we sho...