EEICAT will allow more complete and precise impact assessments, especially for species that affect communities, habitats, ecosystem functions and abiotic conditions. These include ecosystem engineers such as many invasive plants, bivalves or ants, for example.
It keeps the 5 (Minimal to Massive) severity categories, only adding three ecological levels (individual-population, species-assemblage, ecosystem-abiotic).
All assessments previously made with EICAT thus remain valid, but can be updated to incorporate hitherto missed impact types.
It also focuses on the invasion rather than on the invasive species, meaning that each invasion species can be attributed several impact severities within an invasion, or globally. This allows a more complete invasion description, and accounts for variability across invasions.
It now takes into account all 19 types of ecological impacts (vs. less than half previously), including those at the species assemblage, trophic web, ecosystem and abiotic levels (including soil composition, water quality, microclimate, fire regimes, etc).
In our new @plosbiology.org study, we introduce #EEICAT, an evolution of the #EICAT framework to include communities, ecosystems and abiotic habitat components into biological invasions impact assessments.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Preventing the next invasion: lessons from aquaculture for the safe expansion of insect farming doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Thinking about some yummy insects for lunch? Check-out this perspective! π¦
ElΓ©na Manfrini and colleagues @franckcourchamp.bsky.social @bleroyecology.bsky.social discuss what we can learn from previous farming models and plan better the expansion of new ones π§ͺ
thank you Shengyu for helping make this mission smooth and enjoyable. Thank you also for contributing to the success of #InvaPact IV in Beijing!
Thank you to the AXA Research Fund for supporting #InvaCost. Thank you to @cnrsecologie.bsky.social for supporting my salary and giving me total research freedom, to @univparissaclay.bsky.social for hosting me, and to my colleagues at ESE & @ideevl.bsky.social for making this job so enjoyable π€
Of note, this exceptional #InvaPact program, on which over 140 colleagues now contribute from 33 countries, was started 3 years ago, and I still have found no source of research funding for it... If you are a sponsor or a rich philanthropist... π
This is mostly the work of the #InvaCost program (invacost.fr), which yielded 79 published studies.
We have now the new project #InvaPact coming up, which will be even better and more impactful.
Such ranking is rather meaningless in science, but it is nonetheless a recognition for dedicated, hard and creative work, not only by myself, but by my entire team, among whom those who were my postdocs at the time: Christophe Diagne, @bleroyecology.bsky.social, ElenaAngulo and AnnaTurbelin.
Highly Ranked Scholar Award
As we approach the happy times of end of the year, I couldn't resist sharing the award I received this morning: first scholar in the world in the field of Sciences of Invasions. For the second year.
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InvaPact III workshop is now over: WHAT A WEEK! ~60 experts from 30 countries putting their brainpower together for an unique collaborative project.
Work hard, play hard: they really followed my motto!
Powerful publications on the way!
Thank you to the sponsors of this fifth workshop: @AXAResearchFund, @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @FondationLuciole
Today we start the InvaPact III Workshop in Barcelona Spain! 60 experts from 30 countries to work 6 days on the standardisation of ecological impacts of #BiologicalInvasions.
This (largely) new crew is fantastic, this is going to be amazing!
Please give your BlueSky handle if you're part of it!
Just received my fresh copy of @franckcourchamp.bsky.social's new biodiversitΓ© comic! Only in French, but other languages, including English, coming out soon.
#extinction #biodiversity #climatechange #lheritagedudodo
When plants or animals move, or are moved, to a place they don't belong, there is a risk of damage to natural habitats and an economic cost too.
@franckcourchamp.bsky.social talks to @talknormal.co.uk about how we estimate the size of this risk and what we can do about it
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Workshop format
Focused data analysis sessions in small groups
Mix of plenary sessions & independent/group work
Strong spirit of collaboration, mentoring & knowledge sharing
How to Apply
Check the web site, send me your CV + relevant info + research topics
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Who we are Looking For
Early Career Researchers (PhDs and postdocs) with skills in data analysis, coding, and invasion ecology
Priority to women and under-represented regions
Experts across various taxonomic groups
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Objectives
Collective analysis of the InvaPact ecological impact invasion database
Build a shared bank of scripts for analyses and figures
Draft first results for upcoming publications
Foster strong collaborative networks among researchers
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You are an Early Career Researcher? You work on ecological impacts of biological invasions? You love data?
We have a few places left for our InvaPact III workshop (Girona, Spain; Nov. 1β7, 2025). Please find the main infos π, and the full description π www.biodiversitydynamics.fr/invapact3/
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Read our latest paper on the trends and statuses of #biologicalinvasions worldwide.
Led by @hannoseebens.bsky.social , L Meyerson, P PyΕ‘ek and D Richardson and ~60 other coauthors, and based on Chap2 of the #IAS #IPBES Report, it has all the basic info you need!
A MUST READ!
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
Ne manquez pas le grand final de la BD!
Le 10e et dernier Γ©pisode de www.lheritagedudodo.com est en ligne
On y raconte plein d'histoires positives: par ex comment les loups ont changé le cours des rivières, ou comment les humains vont changer le cours de l'Histoire...
N'hΓ©sitez pas Γ partager!
Demain, 10e et dernier Γ©pisode de www.lheritagedudodo.com !
En guise de conclusion, on vous explique pourquoi on va y arriver! :-)
The many faces of invasive species impacts
A quiet forest, a loud debate, and the science that makes sense of the widespread and diverse impacts of invasive species.
www.lheritagedudodo.com a dΓ©passΓ© les 10 000 lecteurs!
On dirait que Γ§a plait!
Vous confirmez?
bon week-end Γ tous!
EspΓ¨ces ingΓ©nieur, espΓ¨ces charismatiques, espΓ¨ces porte-drapeau, espΓ¨ces parapluie... vous Γͺtes prΓͺts?!?
Chapitre 9!
La conservation des espèces.
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