The largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802): impacts of a powerful freshwater fish predator outside of its native range

Biological invasions via anthropogenic vectors, intentional or not, are one of the main causes of ecological change in aquatic ecosystems. Micropterus salmoides (Lacepede, 1802) is often introduced for sport fishing purposes and is broadly distributed worldwide; it has been listed by IUCN as one of the 100 of the world’s worst invasive alien species. We conducted a systematic review of the literature using the ISI Web of Science and Scopus...