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More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

The spread of species beyond their native habitat is a human-made environmental change on a global scale. Among vascular plants, over 16,000 species have now permanently settled in foreign countries.

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