Lisa Tedeschi successfully defended her PhD thesis and won an award!
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...
News
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...
Introducing our new colleague: Fabio Mologni
We are happy to welcome Fabio Mologni to our team in Vienna. Fabio recently started as a post doctoral researcher in our new BiodivERsA+ Project BioMonI...
The success of the 7th European Congress of Conservation Science (ECCB) in Bologna
In June 2024, Bologna (Italy) hosted the 7th ECCB, with more than 1000 participants and 10 parallel sessions! The conference featured Lisa Tedeschi as a...
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 visiting student: David Umhauer
We welcome David, who will be doing a two-month internship in our Division. He will be collaborating with Adrián Garcia-Rodriguez to develop a database of...
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...
Online article (SWR) on lag effects in biological invasions [in german]
There are often decades between the introduction of new species and their massive spread. This makes it difficult to assess the risk and protect native...
Apply now! 3-years PhD position – Analysing historic vegetation changes in Europe
The Division of BioInvasions, Global Change & Macroecology at the University Vienna(http://bioinvasions.univie.ac.at) is offering a PHD-position on...
Visiting Researcher: Gabriel Petuel
We welcome Gabriel Petuel as a visiting researcher at our division. Gabriel is a PhD candidate at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the University of...
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...
Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy award won by Lisa Tedeschi
We congratulate our colleague Lisa Tedeschi, who, along with other 7 junior academics won the the prestigious "Italian Knowledge Leaders Legacy" award, "by...
Michael Glaser successfully defended his PhD thesis!
Today Michael Glaser defended his thesis "Past, present and future weeds.", supervised by Franz Essl and Stefan Dullinger (Uni Vienna). Michael had...
Interview with Franz Essl in “Matt spricht mit..”
In the W24 talk format "Matt spricht mit ..." (in German only), presenter Gerald Matt invites people to talk to him and meets local and international...
