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Special issue on Behaviour and Aquatic Invasions is now online!
Editors: Kit Magellan, Mhairi Alexander, Amy Deacon and Marian Wong.
Welcome to the Special Issue of Aquatic Invasions titled ‘Behaviour and Aquatic Invasions in the 21st Century: Progress, Trends and Future Research’.
In this issue, we focus on how animal behavior is central to biological invasions in aquatic ecosystems, highlight how much this field has progressed in the past 20 years, and show how consideration of animal behavior can aid management of aquatic invasive species.
Snail-blazers: Invasive New Zealand mud snails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in the US float up and attach themselves to the water surface even with unknown native predators, which may aid their survival and dispersal.
Being social can be deadly:Asocial mosquitofish
(Gambusia affinis) are more likely to survive predation than social fish.
Food for thought: Guppies (Poecilia reticulate) are often introduced for mosquito control but their preference for mosquito larvae prey depends
on their social and physical environment, while swimming with others
can reduce foraging efficiency of native species and therefore reduce native fitness.
