Thorough pre-release studies to determine the environmental safety of biocontrol agents
and to predict their effectiveness in controlling the target weed are crucial parts of any weed …

Invasive plants are an increasing threat to global biodiversity. Effective management
depends on accurate predictions of their spread. However, modelling the geographic …

Invasive species have established populations around the world and, in the process,
characteristics of their realized environmental niches have changed. Because of their …

Climate change (CC) poses one of the foremost challenges for humanity in the 21st century.
Based on numerical climate projections, the global near-surface temperature is expected to …

Background In recent years, the quarantine forestry pests the Asian longhorned beetle (ALB)
Anoplophora glabripennis and the citrus longhorned beetle (CLB) Anoplophora chinensis …

Abstract Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky)(Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) is a forest
pest that damages a wide range of trees in areas where it has recently been introduced …

In the arid regions surrounding southwestern Asia, oak trees play an important role in the
environment by conserving water and preserving soil and supporting wildlife. There are …

An ongoing challenge in evolutionary and ecological research focuses on testing
biogeographic hypotheses for the understanding of both species' distributional patterns and …

The experimental data were obtained from an ecological restoration project implemented at
a metal contaminated site. The basic idea presented in this study is that the conventionally …

Invasive plant species are an increasing global threat to native biodiversity. Effective
management depends on accurate predictions of their spread. However, modelling the …