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Freshwater habitats are among one of the most threatened ecosystems of the planet. Factors such as anthropogenic land-use change, climate change, and biodiversity loss are some of the most critical ones and are interconnected. The mixture of those drivers together with other anthropogenic influences such as transportation and voluntary introduction of alien species can set off the condition for such organisms to become invasive. In this chapter, we deal with the multiple groups of freshwater organisms that have been reported as invasive alien species in Mexican freshwater habitats.
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The doctoral studies at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ of Hugo Enrique Reyes Aldana are currently founded by the Helmholtz International Research School TRACER (Trajectories Towards Water Security), grant no. HIRS-0017.
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Bortolini-Rosales, J.L., Reyes-Aldana, H.E. (2023). Invasive Alien Species of Invertebrates and Fishes Introduced Into Mexican Freshwater Habitats. In: Jones, R.W., Ornelas-García, C.P., Pineda-López, R., Álvarez, F. (eds) Mexican Fauna in the Anthropocene. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17277-9_21
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