Our researchIs centred at the crossroads of Invasion Science, Macroecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology, with a strong focus on human-environment interactions.
Invasive Reynoutria japonica in Austria
Our division
CollaborationsWe are committed to a inter-disciplinary, open-minded research culture complemented by active international exchange..
A new study led by Adrián García-Rodríguez and involving several BioInvasions team members was recently published in Nature Communications. The research...
Franz Essl has recently written an invited commentary on the importance of biodiversity policy in the well-known Austrian weekly magazine "Die Furche". You...
We are pleased to welcome Ruiling Liu to our team in Vienna. Ruiling recently joined us as a visiting PhD student and will be conducting research using our...
In the new article "Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation", we explore the paradoxical topic of threatened mammals...
The renowned historian Philipp Blom has invited Franz Essl to his BlomCast Podcast series. The conversation focused on the role of tipping points in science...
Clarivate has published its 2024-edition of the list of Highly Cited Scientists. This list includes researchers who have authored multiple Highly Cited Papers...
This recent research article led by Tom Vorstenbosch, published in Ecology and Evolution, used the sub-Antarctic as a model region to test how variable the...
Recent research led by Daijun Liu, published in Nature Communications, has shed light on how forests adapt to the increasing threat of water stress caused by...
We welcome Anna Walentowitz, who is doing her post-doc at University of Bayreuth in Germany. In her research she focuses on island biogeography and invasion...
Between 24. and 25.9.2024 our annual division retreat took place. Like last year, we were once again in Weissenkirchen in the Wachau, where we discussed our...
At the end of May 2024, Lisa Tedeschi successfully defended her joint PhD thesis at Sapienza University of Rome. The thesis is titled "The ecology of alien...
At the beginning of September, many researchers from our Division attended the 13th International Conference on Biological Invasions (NEOBIOTA) in Lisbon....
Latest Publications
Ciarle R., Burns K. C., & Mologni F. (2025). Flower size evolution in the Southwest Pacific. Annals Of Botany. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf005
Li D., Potgieter L. J., Aronson M. F. J., Axmanová I., Baiser B., Carboni M., et al. (2025). GUBIC : The global urban biological invasions compendium for plants. Ecological Solutions And Evidence, 6, e70020. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70020
Camperio G., Wildpret W., Zemp C., Borges P. A. V., Nascimento L. D., Lenzner B., et al. (2025). Which ongoing and past biodiversity monitoring schemes exist on islands worldwide? Proceed. https://doi.org/10.57808/proceed.2025.11