Dr Matthew Ryan appointed to Phytobiomes Alliance’s Board of Directors
The International Alliance for Phytobiomes Research has announced the appointment of Dr Matthew Ryan and Dr Natalie Breakfield as new Board members of the organization.
CABI helps map ferocious speed and likely cause of woody weed spread across Ethiopia
CABI scientists have helped map the ferocious speed and probable cause of a devastating spread of the invasive alien tree Prosopis juliflora (Swartz DC) across an area equivalent to half of neighbouring Djibouti in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia.
Spread of dangerous waterweed in Southern Africa could be ‘devastating’, according to CABI scientist
CABI scientist Dr Philip Weyl has warned that a dangerous waterweed spreading across Southern Africa could have ‘devastating’ repurcussions on ecosystem functioning and utlization as well as life-supporting services such as fishing.
CABI shares expertise at workshop concerned with threat of invasive species to Gibraltar
Dr Pablo González-Moreno, one of CABI’s senior researchers with expertise in invasive plant ecology, has joined a workshop of international scientists concerned with investigating the invasive non-native species that pose the greatest threat to Gibraltar’s terrestrial and marine environments.