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Alien most commonly refers to:Extraterrestrial life, or alien life which does not originate from Earth Extraterrestrial intelligence, hypothetical advanced alien life Fictional alien life-forms, extraterrestrials in fiction Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AlienA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievableInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: MetamorphosisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United StatesCited 3,523 times
- Go sideways: Predator (disambiguation)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Avatar (disambiguation)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
Noun A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
Noun (Can we verify this sense?) A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.
Noun Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States
Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions
Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems
No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species
Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings—entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions
First Report of Outbreaks of the Fall Armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J E Smith) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), a New Alien Invasive Pest in West and Central Africa
Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes
🆕 Influential since 2022
Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable
A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy
Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide
Knowledge gaps in economic costs of invasive alien fish worldwide
Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism
📚 Books worth reading
MetamorphosisFranz Kafka · 1915
Das SchloßFranz Kafka · 1926
Childhood’s EndArthur C. Clarke · 1952
The TommyknockersStephen King · 1985
三体刘慈欣, Vincent Schmitt · 2008
The Puppet MastersRobert A. Heinlein · 1951
The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)刘慈欣 · 2008
3001Arthur C. Clarke · 1997
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