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Alternative futures for global biological invasions
(Springer on behalf of IR3S and IGES, 2021-09)
Scenario analysis has emerged as a key tool to analyze complex and uncertain future socio-ecological developments. However, currently existing global scenarios (narratives of how the world may develop) have neglected ...
Evaluating differences in the shape of native and alien plant trait distributions will bring new insights into invasions of plant communities
(Wiley on behalf of International Association for Vegetation Science, 2018-03)
Failure to quantify differences in the shape of inter-specific trait distributions (e.g., skew, kurtosis) when comparing co-occurring alien and native plants hinders the integration of biological invasions and plant community ...
Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries
(Wiley, 2021-06-07)
Aim:
The number of alien species has been increasing for centuries world-wide, but temporal changes in the dynamics of their inter-regional spread remain unclear. Here, we analyse changes in the rate and extent of ...
A conceptual framework for range-expanding species that track human-induced environmental change
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2019-11)
For many species, human-induced environmental changes are important indirect drivers of range expansion into new regions. We argue that it is important to distinguish the range dynamics of such species from those that occur ...
Plant invasions in New Zealand: Global lessons in prevention, eradication and control
(Springer, 2020-05)
The number of non-native plant species established outside of cultivation in the New Zealand archipelago is higher than for any other islands worldwide. Faced with this scale of plant invasions, there has been considerable ...
No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-02-15)
Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien species accumulations across regions and taxa. ...
Assessing patterns in introduction pathways of alien species by linking major invasion data bases
(Wiley on behalf of British Ecological Society, 2017-04-01)
Preventing the arrival of invasive alien species (IAS) is a major priority in managing biological invasions. However, information on introduction pathways is currently scattered across many data bases that often use different ...
The emerging science of linked plant-fungal invasions
(Wiley on behalf of the New Phytologist Trust, 2017-09)
Invasions of alien plants are typically studied as invasions of individual species, yet interactions between plants and symbiotic fungi (mutualists and potential pathogens) affect plant survival, physiological traits, and ...
Length of cultivation determines native and non-native weed richness in crop fields worldwide
(Springer Nature, 2019-02-15)
Socio-economic factors often determine the extent to which different global regions have been invaded by non-native plant species, yet few studies examine whether such variables are similarly important for native species ...
Trifolium species associate with a similar richness of soil-borne mutualists in their introduced and native ranges
(Wiley, 2016)
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Aim: While plant species introduced to new regions may benefit from escaping natural enemies, their success may be impaired by losing key mutualists. We aimed to elucidate whether a selection ...