This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of
biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale. Most advances toward that aim have …

As humans have spread across the globe, natural biogeographic barriers have been
disrupted, and many plant and animal species have become established outside their …

Aim The proportion of alien plant species in floras is increasingly being used to indicate the
threat of invasions to native species and/or the homogenization of biodiversity. However, this …

Aim To determine whether invasive and locally abundant non‐native species have a more
homogenizing effect on plant communities than non‐invasive and less abundant non‐native …

Many studies have refuted the opinion that urban floras are poor in total species number and
characterized primarily by neophytes. Also, it has been proved that urban flora differs from its …

We evaluated the importance of alien species in existing vegetation along wadeable
streams of a large, topographically diverse river basin in eastern Oregon, USA; sampling …

The endemic seagrass Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Mediterranean Sea are
presently facing invasion by alien algal species, especially where they are already showing …

It is widely documented that human activities have elevated the extirpation of natural
populations as well as the successful introduction to new areas of non‐native species …

Biodiversity can be partitioned into alpha, beta, and gamma components, and beta diversity
is not as clearly understood. Biotic homogenization predicts that exotic species should lower …

Island species and habitats are particularly vulnerable to human disturbances, and
anthropogenic changes are increasingly overwriting natural island biogeographic patterns …