Everything about Alien 3

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Alien 3A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievableInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The War of the WorldsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United StatesCited 3,523 times
5. Go sideways: Alien ResurrectionA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Alien (franchise)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Update on the environmental and economic costs associated with alien-invasive species in the United States

  David Pimentel, Rodolfo Zuniga, Doug Morrison · 2005 · Ecological Economics · 3,523 citations

• Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions

  David M. Richardson, Petr Pyšek, Marcel Rejmánek · 2000 · Diversity and Distributions · 3,010 citations

• Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

  Montserrat Vilà, José L Espinar, Martin Hejda · 2011 · Ecology Letters · 2,702 citations

• No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide

  Hanno Seebens, Tim M. Blackburn, Ellie E. Dyer · 2017 · Nature Communications · 2,366 citations

• Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

  Petr Pyšek, Philip E. Hulme, Dan Simberloff · 2020 · Biological Reviews · 2,167 citations

• Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings—entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

  Murray R. Gregory · 2009 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 1,510 citations

• 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

  Georg Goergen, P. Lava Kumar, Sagnia B. Sankung · 2016 · PLOS ONE · 1,439 citations

• Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes

  MATTHEW L. BROOKS, CARLA M. D'ANTONIO, DAVID M. RICHARDSON · 2004 · BioScience · 1,290 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

  Helen E. Roy, Aníbal Pauchard, Peter J. Stoett · 2024 · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 228 citations

• A second update to the checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy

  G. Galasso, F. Conti, L. Peruzzi · 2024 · Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology · 113 citations

• Economic costs of invasive alien ants worldwide

  Elena Angulo, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia · 2022 · Biological Invasions · 112 citations

• Knowledge gaps in economic costs of invasive alien fish worldwide

  Phillip J. Haubrock, Camille Bernery, Ross N. Cuthbert · 2022 · Science of The Total Environment · 107 citations

• Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism

  Bernd Lenzner, Guillaume Latombe, Anna Schertler · 2022 · Nature Ecology & Evolution · 91 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells
• The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger, Shao jia yun · 1945
• Walk Two MoonsSharon Creech · 1994
• Alienation and freedomFrantz Fanon, Jean Khalfa · 2015
• Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategiesCorey Sandler, Tom Badgett · 1991
• The European Union and internal securityValsamis Mitsilegas, Jorg Monar · 2003
• Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold · 1993
• The Big Book of Nintendo GamesSteven A. Schwartz · 1991

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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