Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

The number of alien plants escaping from cultivation into native ecosystems is increasing
steadily. We provide an overview of the historical, contemporary and potential future roles of …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in
areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta …

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

Human-induced abiotic global environmental changes (GECs) and the spread of nonnative
invasive species are rapidly altering ecosystems. Understanding the relative and interactive …

Elton's biotic resistance hypothesis, which posits that diverse communities should be more
resistant to biological invasions, has received considerable experimental support. However …

What confers invasive alien plants a competitive advantage over native plants remains open
to debate. Many of the world's worst invasive alien plants are clonal and able to share …

Nitrogen (N) deposition has increased dramatically in recent decades, which is significantly
affecting the invasion and growth of exotic plants. Whether N deposition leads to invasive …

Aim Climate change has increased the risk of biological invasions, particularly by increasing
the climatically suitable regions for invasive alien species. The distribution of many native …