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Invasive alien species [1] (IAS) ,are
one of the main driver of biodiversity loss and disruptors of
ecosystem functioning and services. In addition to ecological impacts, IAS also
[2] have substantial impacts on the economy and human health .
With increasing international trade and changing climates, increasing numbers
of invasions—and their subsequent impacts—are expected worldwide.
The most cost-effective means to
reduce the impacts of IAS is to prevent their importation or implement rapid
response treatment programs [3].
Consequently, there is a pressing need to find [4] preemptive ways
to predict invasions before their occurrence to adjust surveillance or
management policies and thereby [5] reducing the likelihood of
establishment, spread, and overall cost. [6] Identifying future
invaders before they become, so has been a longstanding and
previously unreachable objective of invasion biology.
Until now, species distribution models
have [7] foretold the most suitable areas, and hence the area most
at risk from known IAS. Other types of models have tried to identify what
characterizes IAS based on the drivers of their invasion success, their
life-history traits, or their occurrences worldwide. Such models have been
built for various taxa, including plants, ants, fish, amphibians, reptiles,
birds, and mammals. For ants, studies based on various databases characterize
certain ecological traits often associated with exotic or invasive species. [8]
Although fish are not as invasive as ants, they are more destructive to their
occupied habitat. First, they remain limited in terms of coverage;
notably, all studies based on interception lists rely on only a few countries.
[9] Second, the studies exclusively consider the few species that have
complete data for all of the studied traits, so the studies that are exclusive
remove the majority of species. Removing species with missing data
drastically reduces the sample size and statistical power and also introduces
biases and thus improper predictions. Finally, the existing models are still
mostly limited to species of already known invasive status (i.e., invasive or
exotic) or to providing traits associated with invasiveness; thus, existing
models do not use these traits to predict new invaders yet to move to another
area.
[10] Nevertheless, this corpus of pioneer studies [11] shows: that by
using modern statistical inference tools, improved ecological knowledge on
current IAS, and large databases on species ecological traits, it is now
possible to reach a higher level of prediction in invasion biology and identify
in advance which species could become invasive. Establishing a list of future
potential IAS also allows us to predict where they are likely to invade and
where special detection efforts should be deployed.
A garden is the personal part of an estate [12] the
area that is most intimately associated with the private life of the
home. Originally, the garden was the area inside theenclosure or lines of
fortification, in distinction from the unprotected area or fields that [13] lied beyond;
and this latter area was the particular domain of agriculture. This book
understands the garden to be that part of the personal or home premises
devoted to ornament, and to the growing of vegetables and fruits. The garden [14] ,furthermore, is
an ill-defined demesne; but the reader must not make the mistake of defining it
by dimensions, for one may have a garden in a flower-pot or on a thousand
acres. In other words, this book declares that every bit of land that is not
used for buildings, walks, drives, and fences, should be planted. What we shall
plant—whether sward, lilacs, thistles, cabbages, pears, chrysanthemums, or
tomatoes—we shall talk about as we proceed.
The only way to keep land perfectly unproductive is to keep
it moving. The moment the owner lets it alone, the planting [15] has
begun. In my own garden, this first planting is of pigweeds. These may be
followed, the next year, by ragweeds, then by docks and thistles, with here and
there a start of clover and grass; and it all ends in June-grass and
dandelions.
[16] Nature does not allow the land to remain bare and idle. Even the banks where plaster and lath were dumped two or
three years ago are now luxuriant with burdocks and sweet clover; and yet
persons who pass those dumps every day say that they can grow nothing in their
own yard because the soil is so poor! [17] And I venture that
those same persons furnish most of the pigweed seed that I use on my garden.
The lesson is that there is no soil—where a house would be
built—so poor that something worth while cannot be grown on it. If burdocks
will grow, something else will grow [18] , or if nothing else will
grow then I prefer burdocks to sand and [19]junk.
The burdock is one of the most striking and decorative of
plants, and a good piece of it against a building or on a rough bank is just as
useful [20] that many plants that cost money and are
difficult to grow. I had a good clump of [21] it under my
study window, and it was a great comfort; but the man would persist in wanting
to cut it down when he mowed the lawn. When I remonstrated, he declared
that it was nothing but burdock; but I insisted that, so far from being
burdock, it was really Lappa major, since which time the plant and its
offspring have enjoyed his utmost respect. [22] And I find that
most of my friends reserve their appreciation of a plant until they have
learned its name and its family connections.
Since the 1980s, Internet
users able to communicate via email, chat relays, and forums [23]
has been confronted with particular behaviors understood to be
deviant, deceptive, aggressive, or antagonistic. Recognizing this [24] “,trolling” behavior
required an insider knowledge of the norms of these particular websites in
order to distinguish between sincere/insincere or [25] real/fake interactions.
Today, it is not only those who are deeply embedded in these specific websites,
or those who spend the majority of their time in specific online spaces, who
have an intimate knowledge and conception of what trolling is. Russian trolls
have been exposed [26] for meddling in the presidential election, exacerbating
racial tensions around #BlackLivesMatter, and engaging over 600,000 users on
Twitter. [27] The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is
described as trolling political elites and everyday people .
Academics [28] were harassed on their social media
accounts by right-wing trolls, and the White supremacist organizers in
Charlottesville were linked to online trolling communities. Trolling has
thus made a [29] shift from the margins of the web to the
forefront of academic and media discourses about free speech, harassment,
racism, and politics.
Many scholars argue that
trolling is essentially an [30] specific term for a
spectrum of multidimensional, antagonistic, antisocial, or deviant behaviors
and motivations online. [31] Furthermore, feminist and
antiracist scholars argue that trolling can often be a form of identity-based
harassment, typically in the contexts of trash talking during online gaming,
Twitter tweets, or personal emails sent to a target. Yet the trolling
literature has not yet explored how trolling is generally perceived,
let alone as identity-based harassment, across online contexts.
Part of what informs the debate over definitions of trolling is that academic
conceptualizations of trolls’ intentions and motivations, and the impact of
that trolling, are informed by content analyses of trolling discourses, not how
people who experience trolling conceptualize it. Without an agreed upon
definition, comparison between studies is difficult. Moreover , without knowing
how everyday users may conceptualize a term, [32] survey instruments content
and construct validity are at risk. The question of whether, or when, trolling
is synonymous with identity-based harassment is also sociologically relevant,
as identity-based harassment has serious implications in other domains of
social life.
In order to understand how users conceptualize trolling and explore the extent to which trolling is perceived as identity-based harassment, I conducted an anonymous, open-ended survey on the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk. [33] One hundred twenty US-based adults with various social identities, experiences with trolling (including trolling others themselves), and different platform participation discussed their general understanding of trolling, provided examples from their own experiences, and offered explanations for trolling.
One proven way for marketers to appeal to a target audience
is through identity marketing: advertisements that demonstrate the fit between
a product and the audience's sense of (34) identity, traditional wisdom
holds that the more directly an advertisement connects a product to a
particular identity, the more effective that advertisement will be with
consumers who share that identity. However, recent evidence suggests that
direct identity marketing may no longer be as effective as it once was.
A team of researchers led by marketing Professor Amit
Bhattacharjee conducted a study of different types of identity-marketing
messages. The study included both "green" (35) consumers, people
whose purchases arc especially influenced bv the perceived environmental
friendliness of a product, and neutral consumers. The researchers
divided the participants into three (36) groups. The researchers also
showed each of the three groups a different advertising
message for a cleaning product, Charlie's Soap. One message proclaimed that the
product was necessary for those who think of (37) ourselves as
green ("Charlie's: The only good choice for green consumers!"), while
another message indicated that the product was an attractive option for that
group ("Charlie's: A good choice for green consumers"). A
control message was also used ("Charlie's: A good choice for
consumers"). The researchers then (38) asked, the participants to
rate, on a scale of l to 7 their likelihood of purchasing the product,
with I indicating that they were "not at all likely" and 7 that they
were "very likely" to do so. At the same time, (39) a group
of marketing executives was simultaneously asked which message would
be most effective with the target group.
The results of the study (40) suggest that
the marketing executives (41) have discovered an effective new
strategy. The message (42) least effective with neutral
-identity consumers, with an average likelihood rating of 4.36, was
the one that appealed to their identity without insisting that the product was
necessary for them: "Charlie's: A good choice for green consumers."
(43) As a result, the lowest average rating in the study,
2.74, was assigned by green-identity consumers to the message that the
marketing executives had rated the highest: "Charlie's: The only good
choice for green consumers!"
In
conclusion, while consumers do seem to favor products that claim to fit with
their identity, messages that boast of a product's superior link to a group
identity seem to turn off the very group to which they were designed to appeal.
To continue being successful, marketers will need to take these findings in to
consideration and (44) aim for more direct appeals to consumer tastes.