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The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping

Invasive species introduced by cargo ships are classed by UN as one of the four largest threats to world's oceans [tinyurl.com/gen-eng-40]. Published in leading ecology journal, paper presents risk-assessment based on computer simulations and most complete database of global shipping to date. It identifies high-risk invasion routes, hot spots of bioinvasion and analyses possible mitigation strategies. Prof. Jessica Gurevitch [Stony Brook University, USA] described research as "a major advance" in review for esteemed biological review platform F1000 [tinyurl.com/gen-eng-41]. Work also reported by major media outlets such as BBC [tinyurl.com/gen-eng-42] and Wall Street Journal [tinyurl.com/gen-eng-43].