Unintentional species invasions are instigated by human-mediated dispersal of individuals
beyond their native range. Although most introductions fail at the first hurdle, a select subset …

Over the past two decades, natural history collections (NHCs) have played an increasingly
prominent role in global change research, but they have still greater potential, especially for …

Measures of microbial growth, used as indicators of cellular stress, are sometimes quantified
at a single time-point. In reality, these measurements are compound representations of …

Successful alien species may experience a period of quiescence, known as the lag phase,
before becoming invasive and widespread. The existence of lags introduces severe …

Populations are introduced into novel environments in different contexts, one being the
biological control of pests. Despite intense efforts, less than half introduced biological control …

The science of finding, testing and releasing herbivores and pathogens to control invasive
plant species has achieved a level of maturity and success that argues for continued and …

Understanding the successes and failures of nonnative species remains challenging. In
recent decades, researchers have developed the enemy release hypothesis and other …

Highlights•Museum and herbarium collections store near inexhaustible genetic
resources.•We overview next-generation sequencing tools for the analysis of museum and …

Introduced mammals can cause extinction of native species due to replacement competition,
disease, predation or hybridization. We studied the colonization of Piedmont (NW-Italy) by …

In classical weed biological control, small collections of arthropods are made from one or a
few sites in the native range of the target plant and are introduced to suppress the plant …