Biological control (BC) is defined as the use of living natural enemies, antagonists, or
competitors (biological control agents) to control other living organisms. In the second half of …

The enemy release hypothesis (ERH) is the best‐known hypothesis explaining high
performance (eg rapid population growth) of exotic species. However, the current framing of …

Background and aims Since its emergence in the mid‐20th century, invasion biology has
matured into a productive research field addressing questions of fundamental and applied …

Aim Non‐native species are part of almost every biological community worldwide, yet
numbers of species establishments have an uneven global distribution. Asymmetrical …

Potato production worldwide is plagued by several disease-causing pathogens that result in
crop and economic losses estimated to billions of dollars each year. To this day, synthetic …

Invasive species pose one of the greatest global threats to biodiversity. There has been a
long history of importing coevolved natural enemies to act as biological control agents to try …

Incorporating physiology into models of population dynamics will improve our understanding
of how and why invasions succeed and cause ecological impacts, whereas others fail or …

Insect pest invasions cause significant damage to crop yields, and the resultant economic
losses are truly alarming. Climate change and trade liberalization have opened new ways of …

In the USA, the lack of systematic post-release assessments of weed biological control
projects demonstrating quantitative effects of biological control agents on target weed …

Mycoparasitic interactions are common in nature, form part of the microbiota of plants, and
are considered significant contributors to fungus-fungus antagonism. Mycoparasites kill …