Shipping disruptions may fuel spread of harmful alien species
The story of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis, the invasive mussel that travelled the shipping routes that wired the Caribbean and Atlantic worlds together, offers a sense of how things might go write Dr Stefan Huebner, ARI Research Fellow, and Dr Anthony Medrano from Yale-NUS College in The Straits Times. Research from this article comes from ARI event 'When Species Travel: On the Rise and Consequence of Invasive Ecologies in Asia and the West Pacific' held earlier this year.