Everything about Alien vs. Predator

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Alien vs. PredatorA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Alien vs. predator: influence of environmental variability and predation on the survival of ascidian recruits of a native and alien speciesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategiesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirdsCited 239 times
5. Go sideways: Aliens vs. Predator: RequiemA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Alien vs. Predator (film)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds

  Helen E. Roy, Tim Adriaens, Nick J. B. Isaac · 2012 · Diversity and Distributions · 239 citations

• Keystone effects of an alien top-predator stem extinctions of native mammals

  Mike Letnic, Freya Koch, Chris Gordon · 2009 · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · 178 citations

• Preference and Prey Switching in a Generalist Predator Attacking Local and Invasive Alien Pests

  Coline C. Jaworski, Anaïs Bompard, Laure Genies · 2013 · PLoS ONE · 120 citations

• Sharing a predator: can an invasive alien pest affect the predation on a local pest?

  Anaïs Bompard, Coline C. Jaworski, Philippe Bearez · 2013 · Population Ecology · 105 citations

• Alien vs. predator: bacterial challenge alters coral microbiomes unless controlled by Halobacteriovorax predators

  Rory M. Welsh, Stephanie M. Rosales, Jesse R. Zaneveld · 2017 · PeerJ · 97 citations

• When Does an Alien Become a Native Species? A Vulnerable Native Mammal Recognizes and Responds to Its Long-Term Alien Predator

  Alexandra J. R. Carthey, Peter B. Banks · 2012 · PLoS ONE · 78 citations

• Risk induced by a native top predator reduces alien mink movements

  Pälvi Salo, Mikael Nordström, Robert L. Thomson · 2008 · Journal of Animal Ecology · 77 citations

• MODELING THE BIOLOGICAL CONTROL OF AN ALIEN PREDATOR TO PROTECT ISLAND SPECIES FROM EXTINCTION

  Franck Courchamp, George Sugihara · 1999 · Ecological Applications · 51 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Alien vs. predator: influence of environmental variability and predation on the survival of ascidian recruits of a native and alien species

  Robin P. M. Gauff, Christophe Lejeusne, Laure Arsenieff · 2022 · Biological Invasions · 12 citations

• Alien vs. Predator: Impacts of Invasive Species and Native Predators on Urban Nest Box Use by Native Birds

  Andrew M. Rogers, Françoise Lermite, Andrea S. Griffin · 2023 · Animals · 10 citations

• Predator and Alien: the threat of predatory journals and conferences

  Sophie Leducq, Natalie Bonsu, Kate Clement · 2023 · Clinical and Experimental Dermatology · 9 citations

• The effect of temperature and invasive alien predator on genetic and phenotypic variation in the damselfly Ischnura elegans: cross-latitude comparison

  Guillaume Wos, Gemma Palomar, Marzena Marszałek · 2023 · Frontiers in Zoology · 9 citations

• Embryonic exposure to native and alien predator cues tunes tadpole defensive behaviour

  Andrea Gazzola, Alessandro Balestrieri, Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa · 2023 · Aquatic Ecology · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Official Sega Genesis and Game Gear strategiesCorey Sandler, Tom Badgett · 1991
• Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold · 1993
• Game Counselor's Answer Book for Nintendo PlayersThe Game Counselor, Inc. · 1991
• AVPAlec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr · 2004
• Alien vs. predatorPaul Shipton · 2007
• Aliens vs Predator requiemAlec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr · 2007
• Atari JaguarZach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold · 1995
• Super NES Games Secrets, Greatest TipsLeeanne Mcdermott · 1993

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