Surprisingly high economic costs of biological invasions in protected areas

Biological Invasions - Biological invasions are one of the main threats to biodiversity within protected areas (PAs) worldwide. Meanwhile, the resilience of PAs to invasions remains largely...     

Role of non-indigenous species in structuring benthic communities after fragmentation events: an experimental approach

Biological Invasions - Habitat loss and fragmentation, and biological invasions are widely considered the most significant threats to global biodiversity. While marine invasions have already shown...     

Differential effects of N addition on the stoichiometry of microbes and extracellular enzymes in the rhizosphere and bulk soils of an alpine shrubland

Plant and Soil - Biological invasions have historically been addressed mostly from an aboveground perspective, so little is known about the impacts of belowground invasions. We studied the impact...     

A self-study of editorial board diversity at Biological Invasions

Biological Invasions - The editorial board of this journal, Biological Invasions, aims to publish research that informs understanding of the patterns and processes of invasions and discussion of...     

Predicting current and future distribution of Hovenia dulcis Thunb. (Rhamnaceae) worldwide

Biological Invasions - Biological invasions are increasingly recognized as one of the major threats to biodiversity. The Japanese raisin tree (Hovenia dulcis) is native to East Asia, however, in...     

Are the “100 of the world’s worst” invasive species also the costliest?

Biological Invasions - Biological invasions are increasing worldwide, damaging ecosystems and socioeconomic sectors. Two decades ago, the “100 of the world’s worst” invasive alien...     

Global change and biological invasions

Invasion by exotic species is one of the serious socio-economic, environmental and ecological problems currently faced by mankind. Biological invasions have changed the species composition, structure and function of ecosystems, and are seriously threatening global biodiversity, economy and human health (Iqbal et al. 2021; Wang et al. 2020; Yang et al. 2021; Zhao et al. 2020; Zheng et al. 2015). Biological invasions have resulted in an economic loss of at least US$ 1.288 trillion over the past few decades worldwide (Diagne et al. 2021). As a consequence of these far-reaching impacts, biological invasions have become a hot research topic in modern ecology, and attract major attention from international organizations, governments and scientists all over the world. There is a complex interaction between biological invasions and global environmental change. Biological invasions are not only passengers of global change, but can also be major drivers of global change (MacDougall and Turkington 2005). Other components of global change, such as atmospheric CO₂ enrichment, global warming, nitrogen deposition, changes in precipitation regimes, habitat fragmentation and land-use change, affect species distributions and resource dynamics of ecosystems, and consequently drive invasion success of many exotic species. On the other hand, invasion by exotic species can also alter basic ecosystem properties, which in turn affect many components of global change. Research on the patterns, processes and mechanisms of biological invasion can shed light on the drivers and consequences of biological invasions in the light of global change, and serve as a scientific basis for forward-thinking management plans. The overarching challenge is to understand the basic ecological interactions of, e.g., invasive and native species, plants and soil, and plants and animals.     

Invasion speeds in fluctuating environments

Biological invasions are increasingly frequent and have dramatic ecological and economic consequences. A key to coping with invasive species is our ability to predict their rates of spread. Traditional models of biological invasions assume that the environment is temporally constant. We examine the consequences for invasion speed of periodic and stochastic fluctuations in population growth rates and in dispersal distributions.     

Modelling the damage costs of invasive alien species

Biological Invasions - The rate of biological invasions is growing unprecedentedly, threatening ecological and socioeconomic systems worldwide. Quantitative understandings of invasion temporal...     

Urban environments provide opportunities for early detections of Phytophthora invasions

Biological Invasions - Globalization has increased the frequency of inadvertent introductions of plant pathogens. Many catastrophic invasions of both natural and agricultural systems have been...     

Invasive potential of golden and zebra mussels in present and future climatic scenarios in the new world

Hydrobiologia - Biological invasions and climate change are important drivers of biodiversity loss. In freshwater ecosystems, golden and zebra mussels are two highly aggressive invasive species...     

A screening system to predict wildfire risk of invasive plants

Biological Invasions - Globally, invasive plant-fueled wildfires have tremendous environmental, economical, and societal impacts, and the frequencies of wildfires and plant invasions are on an...     

The origin and genetic diversity of the yellow-legged hornet,Vespa velutina introduced in Japan

Insectes Sociaux - Biological invasions have severe economic and ecological impacts. The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa velutina was originally distributed throughout most of the Oriental region, but...     

Simulated encounters with a novel competitor reveal the potential for maladaptive behavioural responses to invasive species

Biological Invasions - During the early stage of biological invasions, interactions occur between native and non-native species that do not share an evolutionary history. This can result in...     

Raised by aliens: constant exposure to an invasive predator triggers morphological but not behavioural plasticity in a threatened species tadpoles

Biological Invasions - During biotic invasions, native communities are abruptly exposed to novel and often severe selective pressures. The lack of common evolutionary history with invasive...     

Pine invasion drives loss of soil fungal diversity

Biological Invasions - Plant invasions can cause biotic homogenisation which can have cascading effects on the diversity of invaded ecosystems. These impacts on diversity are likely to be...     

Competition between a native and introduced pollinator in unmanaged urban meadows

Biological Invasions - There is little understanding of the role of exotic bees in the observed pollinator decline. Recent models of species invasions predict that aggressive species have more...     

Biocontrol exerts natural selection against fecundity traits in Cytisus scoparius (L.)

Evolutionary Ecology - Biological invasions represent a useful experimental system with which evolutionary processes can be investigated in a contemporary timespan. One process that can be studied...     

Density-dependent interactions between the nematode Meloidogyne incognita and the biological control agent Agasicles hygrophila on invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides and its native congener Alternantera sessilis

BioControl - Biological invasions are a great threat to biodiversity. Invasive plants targeted for control with introduced biological control agents are also exposed to indigenous herbivores in the...     

Fire,rodent herbivory,and plant competition: implications for invasion and altered fire regimes in the Mojave Desert

Oecologia - Biological invasions are responsive to changing wildfire regimes related to human activities that are altering biological communities. Our objective was to investigate how fire, rodent...