The twenty-first century has witnessed a wave of severe infectious disease outbreaks, not
least the COVID-19 pandemic, which has had a devastating impact on lives and livelihoods …

In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al.(2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater
ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and …

Biological invasions are synonymous with international trade. The direct effects of trade
have largely been quantified using relationships between imports and the number of alien …

Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified
during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien …

Invasive alien species (IAS) threaten human livelihoods and biodiversity globally. Increasing
globalization facilitates IAS arrival, and environmental changes, including climate change …

Our ability to predict the identity of future invasive alien species is largely based upon
knowledge of prior invasion history. Emerging alien species—those never encountered as …

Invasive species present significant threats to global agriculture, although how the
magnitude and distribution of the threats vary between countries and regions remains …

Unprecedented rates of introduction and spread of non-native species pose burgeoning
challenges to biodiversity, natural resource management, regional economies, and human …

We review and synthesize information on invasions of nonnative forest insects and diseases
in the United States, including their ecological and economic impacts, pathways of arrival …

Trade plays a key role in the spread of alien species and has arguably contributed to the
recent enormous acceleration of biological invasions, thus homogenizing biotas worldwide …