{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"The conqueror's biotic army","html":"[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"122\" caption=\"still from Oil Blue, Directed by Elli Rintala. Finland. \"]<img src=\"http:\/\/www.vimooz.com\/festivalticker\/public_html\/festivalticker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/oilblue.jpg\" alt=\"still from Oil Blue, Directed by Elli Rintala. Finland. \" width=\"122\" height=\"81\" \/>[\/caption]\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"89\" caption=\"\u00a0Mnemiopsis leidyi (Comb Jelly)\"]<img src=\"http:\/\/www.issg.org\/database\/species\/images\/ecology_thumbnail\/mnem_n2.gif\" alt=\"The alien ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi (Comb Jelly)\" width=\"89\" height=\"98\" \/>\r\n[\/caption]\r\n\r\nOil tanker ballast water has carried the beautiful invasive comb jelly to a myriad of seas, where is successfully settled. There is an argument that conquering peoples (or ideologies) are accompanied by a successful invasion of accompanying non-human animal allies, who help settle the land in new ways that upended the unprepared native inhabitants. Of course, this often backfires (as do conquerors).\r\n\r\nsee the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.issg.org\/database\/species\/ecology.asp?fr=1&amp;si=95\"> ISSG global invasive species database<\/a>\r\n\r\nsee also the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0521546184?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=omat-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0521546184\" target=\"_blank\">\"Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe\" Alfred W Crosby<\/a>","type":"rich"}