Ecological perturbations caused by biotic invasion have been identified as a growing threat
to global sustainability. Invasive alien plants species (IAPS) are considered to be one of the …

Invasive alien plants are a major threat to biodiversity and they contribute to the
unfavourable conservation status of habitats of interest to the European Community. In order …

Biological invasions are a threat to biodiversity, society and the economy. There is an urgent
need to provide evidence‐based assessments of the risks posed by invasive alien species …

Plans are currently being drafted for the next decade of action on biodiversity—both the post‐
2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and …

Assessing the impacts of alien plant species is a major task in invasion science and vitally
important for supporting invasion-related policies. Since 1993, a range of assessment …

Abstract The European Union (EU) has recently published its first list of invasive alien
species (IAS) of EU concern to which current legislation must apply. The list comprises …

Robust tools are needed to prioritise the management of invasive non-native species
(INNS). Risk assessment is commonly used to prioritise INNS, but fails to take into account …

A risk assessment of 62 invasive alien vascular plant species has been carried out for
Luxembourg, using the Belgian Harmonia+ protocol that assesses the invasion process and …

Humans have moved species away from their native ranges since the Neolithic, but
globalization accelerated the rate at which species are being moved. We fitted more than …

Abstract The freshwater Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit (FISK) has been applied in 35 risk
assessment areas in 45 countries across the six inhabited continents (11 applications using …