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Increasing functional modularity with residence time in the co-distribution of native and introduced vascular plants

Hui, Cang; Richardson, David M.; Pysek, Petr; Le Roux, Johannes J.; Kucera, Tomas; Jarosik, Vojtech (Nature Publishing Group, 2013-09)

Species gain membership of regional assemblages by passing through multiple ecological and environmental filters. To capture the potential trajectory of structural changes in regional meta-communities driven by biological ...

Biological invasions and natural colonisations are different – the need for invasion science

Wilson, John R. U.; Garcia-Diaz, Pablo; Cassey, Phillip; Richardson, David M.; Pysek, Petr; Blackburn, Tim M. (Pensoft, 2016)

In a recent Discussion Paper, Hoffmann and Courchamp (2016) posed the question: are biological invasions and natural colonisations that different? This apparently simple question resonates at the core of the biological ...

EMAPi 2015 : highlighting links between science and management of alien plant invasions

Daehler, Curtis C.; Van Kleunen, Mark; Pysek, Petr; Richardson, David M. (Pensoft, 2016)

The 13th International Conference on Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions (EMAPi) was held in Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 20–24 September 2015. EMAPi is the only international conference that focuses exclusively ...

Measuring size and composition of species pools : a comparison of dark diversity estimates

De Bello, Francesco; Fibich, Pavel; Zeleny, David; Kopecky, Martin; Mudrak, Ondrej; Chytry, Milan; Pysek, Petr; Wild, Jan; Michalcova, Dana; Sadlo, Jiri; Smilauer, Petr; Leps, Jan; Partel, Meelis (Wiley Open Access, 2016)

Ecological theory and biodiversity conservation have traditionally relied on the number of species recorded at a site, but it is agreed that site richness represents only a portion of the species that can inhabit particular ...

A unified classification of alien species based on the magnitude of their environmental impacts

Blackburn, Tim M.; Essl, Franz; Evans, Thomas; Hulme, Philip E.; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Kuhn, Ingolf; Kumschick, Sabrina; Markova, Zuzana; Mrugala, Agata; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Pergl, Jan; Pysek, Petr; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; Ricciardi, Anthony; Richardson, David M.; Sendek, Agnieszka; Vila, Montserrat; Wilson, John R. U.; Winter, Marten; Genovesi, Piero; Bacher, Sven (PLoS, 2014)

Species moved by human activities beyond the limits of their native geographic ranges into areas in which they do not naturally occur (termed aliens) can cause a broad range of significant changes to recipient ecosystems; ...

Hitting the right target : taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions

Pysek, Petr; Hulme, Philip E.; Meyerson, Laura A.; Smith, Gideon F.; Boatwright, James S.; Crouch, Neil R.; Figueiredo, Estrela; Foxcroft, Llewellyn C.; Jarosik, Vojtech; Richardson, David M.; Suda, Jan; Wilson, John R. U. (Oxford University Press, 2013)

This paper explores how a lack of taxonomic expertise, and by implication a dearth of taxonomic products such as identification tools, has hindered progress in understanding and managing biological invasions. It also ...

Integrative invasion science : model systems, multi-site studies, focused meta-analysis and invasion syndromes

Kueffer, Christoph; Pysek, Petr; Richardson, David M. (Wiley Online Library, 2013)

Invasion science is a very active subdiscipline of ecology. However, some scientists contend that theoretical integration has been limited and that predictive power remains weak. This paper, focusing on plants, proposes ...

Troubling travellers : are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Pergl, Jan; Pysek, Petr; Bacher, Sven; Essl, Franz; Genovesi, Piero; Harrower, Colin A.; Hulme, Philip E.; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Kenis, Marc; Kuhn, Ingolf; Perglova, Irena; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; Roques, Alain; Roy, David B.; Roy, Helen E.; Vila, Montserrat; Winter, Marten; Nentwig, Wolfgang (Pensoft Publishers, 2017)

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established alien plants, mammals, freshwater fish and terrestrial invertebrates ...

Biodiversity assessments : origin matters

Pauchard, Anibal; Meyerson, Laura A.; Bacher, Sven; Blackburn, Tim M.; Brundu, Giuseppe; Cadotte, Marc W.; Courchamp, Franck; Essl, Franz; Genovesi, Piero; Haider, Sylvia; Holmes, Nick D.; Hulme, Philip E.; Jeschke, Jonathan M.; Lockwood, Julie L.; Novoa, Ana; Nunez, Martin A.; Peltzer, Duane A.; Pysek, Petr; Richardson, David M.; Simberloff, Daniel; Smith, Kevin; Van Wilgen, Brian W.; Vila, Montserrat; Wilson, John R. U.; Winter, Marten; Zenni, Rafael D. (Public Library of Science, 2018-11-13)

Recent global efforts in biodiversity accounting, such as those undertaken through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), ...

Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success

Divisek, Jan; Chytry, Milan; Beckage, Brian; Gotelli, Nicholas J.; Lososova, Zdenka; Pysek, Petr; Richardson, David M.; Molofsky, Jane (Nature Research (part of Springer Nature), 2018-11-06)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important at different ...