Why are invasive plants successful?

M Gioria, PE Hulme, DM Richardson… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Invasion science: a horizon scan of emerging challenges and opportunities

A Ricciardi, TM Blackburn, JT Carlton, JTA Dick… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
We identified emerging scientific, technological, and sociopolitical issues likely to affect how
biological invasions are studied and managed over the next two decades. Issues were …

Contemporary evolution during invasion: evidence for differentiation, natural selection, and local adaptation

RI Colautti, JA Lau - Invasion Genetics: The Baker and Stebbins …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biological invasions are 'natural'experiments that can improve our understanding of
contemporary evolution. We evaluate evidence for population differentiation, natural …

What we still don't know about invasion genetics

DG Bock, C Caseys, RD Cousens… - … genetics: The baker …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Publication of The Genetics of Colonizing Species in 1965 launched the field of
invasion genetics and highlighted the value of biological invasions as natural ecological and …

Is there a genetic paradox of biological invasion?

A Estoup, V Ravigné, R Hufbauer… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Bottlenecks in population size can reduce fitness and evolutionary potential, yet introduced
species often become invasive. This poses a dilemma referred to as the genetic paradox of …

The invasion ecology of sleeper populations: Prevalence, persistence, and abrupt shifts

MJ Spear, JR Walsh, A Ricciardi, MJV Zanden - BioScience, 2021 - academic.oup.com
It is well established that nonnative species are a key driver of global environmental change,
but much less is known about the underlying drivers of nonnative species outbreaks …

A synthesis of biological invasion hypotheses associated with the introduction–naturalisation–invasion continuum

EZ Daly, O Chabrerie, F Massol, B Facon, MCM Hess… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of the Anthropocene, biological invasions have reached an unprecedented
level, and the number of species introductions is still increasing in an ever‐changing world …

The influence of numbers on invasion success

TM Blackburn, JL Lockwood… - Invasion genetics: The …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The process by which a species becomes a biological invader, at a location where it does
not naturally occur, can be divided into a series of sequential stages (transport, introduction …

Global population genetic structure and demographic trajectories of the black soldier fly, Hermetia illucens

C Kaya, TN Generalovic, G Ståhls, M Hauser… - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Background The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) is the most promising insect candidate
for nutrient-recycling through bioconversion of organic waste into biomass, thereby …

Invasiveness of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus and Vectorial Capacity for Chikungunya Virus

LP Lounibos, LD Kramer - The Journal of infectious diseases, 2016 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we highlight biological characteristics of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus,
2 invasive mosquito species and primary vectors of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), that set the …