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Evolution makes invading species spread even faster
2015-04-22 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Today, invasive animals and plants spread all around the globe. Predicting the dynamics of these invasions is of great ecological and socioeconomical interest. Yet studying them is fundamentally challenging because of the large spatial and temporal scales involved. Scientists at Eawag and University of Zurich are now using computer simulations and small artificial laboratory worlds, to study how rapid evolution makes invaders spread even faster. Due to worldwide mobilit…
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