New Book Publication: The Values of Nature
Stefan M. Gergely, Franz Essl, Alice Vadrot, Erika M. Wagner and Heidi Wittmer have edited a new book in German: Die Werte der Natur. Recht, Gerechtigkeit...
Publication
New publication examines novel and co-xenic associations of alien fungal and fungus-like plant pathogens
A new study led by Anna Schertler and an international team of experts on fungal and plant invasions has just been published in New Phytologist. The study...
New Publication – The Influence of Resurvey Plot Location on Observed Vegetation Change
Long-term vegetation study through resurveys is essential for quantifying how biodiversity changes over time. The accuracy of resurvey data is influenced...
New publication – Shining a Light on “Dark Extinctions” – undocumented extinctions are the rule rather than the exception
Species loss is accelerating and has surpassed historic extinction rates. But how well do we actually capture extinctions and do we know how many species...
New publication – European colonialism still threatens biodiversity and languages worldwide
Biodiversity and languages are threatened worldwide. The IPBES Global Assessment estimates around 1 Mio. species at risk of extinction and the same holds...
New Study Reveals Global Surge in Invasive Mosquito Species
An international research team led by the University of Lisbon and involving the University of Vienna reports a rapid worldwide increase in...
New publication – 2nd edition of the Austrian Neophyte Checklist & Michael Glaser on Science ORF
The second edition of the Checklist of Austrian Neophytes, led by Michael Glaser, has just been published in Preslia. This comprehensive update documents...
New book – Kärntens Heuschrecken
Franz Essl contributed to a beautiful newly published book on Austrian (particularly Carinthian) grasshoppers, available now on the webshop of the...
New publication – Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe
A new study led by Lisa Tedeschi, in collaboration with colleagues from Czech Republic, Portugal, and Italy, was recently published in Oikos. In this paper,...
New publication – The latitudinal variation in amphibian speciation rates revisited
A study led by Adrián García-Rodríguez and involving colleagues from Mexico, Colombia, Austria and Brazil was recently published in Communications Biology....
New publication – World-wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands
Recent research led by Daijun Liu, published in New Phytologist, has reported how structure and functional changes of global shrubland ecosystems in response...
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...
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...
