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TL;DR: With the exception of smaller size at maturity, all traits were higher in populations from artificial water bodies than those inhabiting running waters, suggesting gibel carp is required to exert more reproductive effort to invade natural ecosystems than artificial waters.

TL;DR: This horizon scan provides the first systematic exercise to identify invasive alien species of potential concern to biodiversity and ecosystems but also human health within the Mediterranean region and should provide other islands in the region and beyond with baseline data to improve IAS prioritisation and management.

TL;DR: The Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK) as discussed by the authors is a decision support tool that offers 32 languages in which to carry out screenings and communicate outcomes to stakeholders.

TL;DR: AS-ISK was used to re-assess species previously screened using FISK and to assess additional non-native and translocated fish species, and when the potential effects of climate change on the assessments were considered, risk scores increased for some (sub)tropical fishes of which two are translocated species.

TL;DR: Evidence that this emerging parasite has now been introduced via Pseudorasbora parva to sea bass farms, an industry that represents over 400 M€ annually in a Mediterranean region that is already economically vulnerable is provided, and for the first time evidence linking S. destruens to disease and severe declines in international threatened European endemic freshwater fishes is provided.