New publication – The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains
A new study led by Adrián García-Rodríguez and involving several BioInvasions team members was recently published in Nature Communications. The research...
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New publication – Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation
In the new article "Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation", we explore the paradoxical topic of threatened mammals...
New publication – Venturing into the unknown: The importance of variable selection when modelling alien species under non‐analogue climatic conditions
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...
New publication – Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests
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...
New publication – The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development
In this recent perspective piece in the journal People and Nature, we discuss the role of biological invasions for sustainable development. We highlight...
New publication – Regional invasion history and land use shape the prevalence of non-native species in local assemblages
The latest research paper led by Daijun Liu has been published in Global Change Biology. Here, we combined global databases documenting the occurrence and...
New publication – Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable
Recently the synthesis publication of the recent IPBES Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control has been published in Nature Ecology and...
New publication – Predicted decline in invasion risk for alien cultivated flora in Southern Africa
The latest research paper of Ali Omer and colleagues, "Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in Southern Africa is predicted to decline under...
New publication – Lag phases in plant invasions
Philipp Robeck and colleagues from GloNAF - among them Franz Essl - recently published an exciting study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Successful...
New publication – The biogeography of alien fungal pathogens
In our latest publication in Journal of Biogeography led by Anna Schertler, we examine the global biogeography of 100 alien fungi and fungus-like oomycetes...
New publication from AgriWeedClim
Happy to share our latest publication led by Michael Glaser in the journal Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. We applied occupancy modelling to a...
IPBES-IAS Assessment: Chapters now available
Following the release of the Summary for Policy-Makers of the IPBES Assessment on Invasive Alien Species and their Control, the individual chapters of the...
Alien plants migrate northwards
In Europe and America, many of the alien plant species originate from their own continent. They usually originate in warmer regions closer to the equator - a...
IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report released
On 4 September 2023 a comprehensive assessment by the world biodiversity council (IPBES) on the state of biological invasions, their distribution, trends,...
New publication – Evolutionary imbalance explaining global plant invasions
This new publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution, led by Trevor Fristoe and involving the GloNAF team, explores how the evolutionary imbalance...
