Biological invasions on Indigenous peoples' lands

H Seebens, A Niamir, F Essl, ST Garnett… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Biological invasions are a growing challenge in a highly interconnected and globalized
world, leading to the loss of native biodiversity. Indigenous peoples' lands (IPLs) play a vital …

Biological invasions negatively impact global protected areas

L Carneiro, NOR Miiller, RN Cuthbert… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Protected areas underpin global biodiversity conservation and sustainability agendas.
Biological invasions increasingly threaten the ecological functioning and long-term …

Economic impact disharmony in global biological invasions

RN Cuthbert, JTA Dick, PJ Haubrock… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
A dominant syndrome of the Anthropocene is the rapid worldwide spread of invasive
species with devastating environmental and socio-economic impacts. However, the …

Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life‐form‐dependent cultivation biases

BC Dong, Q Yang, NL Kinlock… - Diversity and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Most naturalized plants are escapees from cultivation. Inventories of cultivated
introduced species thus offer unique, still underutilized, opportunities to assess …

Global proliferation of nonnative plants is a major driver of insect invasions

C Bertelsmeier, A Bonnamour, EG Brockerhoff… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Invasions by nonnative insect species can massively disrupt ecological processes, often
leading to serious economic impacts. Previous work has identified propagule pressure as …

The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia

R Holmes, P Pelser, J Barcelona, SS Tjitrosoedirdjo… - Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Major regional gaps exist in the reporting and accessibility of naturalized plant species
distribution data, especially within Southeast Asia. Here, we present the Malesian …

Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene

R Holmes, P Pelser, J Barcelona… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Worldwide, floras are becoming homogenized at global scales, but regional patterns
vary. Here, we present the first assessment for the Malesian phytogeographical region in …

Naturalized alien flora of Uzbekistan: species richness, origin and habitats

T Makhkamov, A Kortz, M Hejda, G Brundu, P Pyšek - Biological Invasions, 2024 - Springer
This is the first study providing an up-to-date account of the alien flora in Uzbekistan and
analyzing the relationship between the invasion status (casual, naturalized, invasive) of …

[HTML][HTML] Alien plant species richness in urban protected biodiversity areas: a case study of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa

T Nelufule, TC Thenga, TC Shivambu, N Shivambu… - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Urban protected biodiversity areas conserve some of the world's critically endangered and
isolated biodiversity while providing essential ecosystem services. However, these urban …

Drivers of compositional turnover of narrow-ranged versus widespread naturalised woody plants in South Africa

IW de Beer, C Hui, C Botella… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Alien trees and shrubs have become increasingly common invaders globally
and have caused major negative impacts to ecosystems and society. Non-native woody …