Our researchIs centred at the crossroads of Invasion Science, Macroecology, Biogeography and Conservation Biology, with a strong focus on human-environment interactions.
Invasive Fallopia japonica in Austria
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CollaborationsWe are committed to a inter-disciplinary, open-minded research culture complemented by active international exchange..
In the latest episode of the Birdlife Podcast 'Gezwitscher', Gábor Wichmann (director of BirdLife Austria and Lisa Lugerbauer) talk with Franz Essl about the...
Jennifer recently joined our group and she will study how biodiversity and climate change influences human conflicts across the globe.
My research focuses...
On 4 September 2023 a comprehensive assessment by the world biodiversity council (IPBES) on the state of biological invasions, their distribution, trends,...
We are happy and proud to announce that Daijun Liu received the Young Investigator Award 2023 from the Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Vienna. This...
Recently, Franz Essl was interviewed by the Krone Newspaper about the impacts of biological invasions in Austria and globally. The article gives some...
In a recent contribution our colleague Adrián García, in collaboration with Héctor Zumbado from the University of California at Riverside, has published a...
Our work on future scenarios of biological invasions was recently recognized with this important award. As part of the prize, a nice video animation was...
In this paper led by Adrián García and involving other team members and colleagues from other international institutions, we studied climatic niche dynamics...
In the beginning of May, the two Ecological Society (GfÖ) specialists groups on biogeography and macroecology joined forces and held a meeting at the...
This study by an international team was led by Daijun Liu and involved several other BioInvasions team members. They found that high land use is associated...
Latest Publications
Thines M., Seebens H., Aime M. C., Shivas R. G., Kiss L., Essl F., & Schertler A. (2023). Host Switching and Geographic Expansions in (Hemi)biotrophic Plant Pathogens. In S. Pöggeler & James, T. (Eds.), Evolution of Fungi and Fungal-Like Organisms (Vol. The Mycota 14, pp. 123-148). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29199-9_6
García-Rodríguez A., & Zumbado-Ulate H. (2023). Chytrid invasion drives frog redistributions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 10-11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02184-9
Pyšek P., Lučanová M., Dawson W., Essl F., Kreft H., Leitch I. J., et al. (2023). Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread. New Phytologist, 2389-2403. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19135