Invasive plant species (IPS) are often considered weeds that cause high yield losses in
crops, negatively affect the environment, and disrupt certain ecosystem services. The …

Alien species are among the five drivers of environmental change with the largest relative
global impacts. In particular, horticulture is a major introduction pathway of alien plants, but …

Abstract The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) pathways classification framework
used in the implementation of the European Union's (EU) Regulation 1143/2014 on invasive …

The international grain trade is a major pathway for the introduction of alien plants because
grain commodities can be contaminated with various weed seeds. To evaluate how alien …

Imports of seeds for sowing are a major pathway for the introduction of contaminant seeds,
and many agricultural weeds globally naturalised originally have entered through this …

Weedy rice, a pervasive and troublesome weed found across the globe, has often evolved
through fertilization of rice cultivars with little importance of crop‐weed gene flow. In …

International seed trading provides a significant introductory pathway for weed seeds, and
many globally established weeds originated as contaminants in agricultural seed lots …

Our understanding on the role of introduction pathways on plant invasions is incomplete
because their interaction with other factors remains poorly studied. We contributed to filling …

This vegetation–environmental relation study is the first large-scale survey along 34 cross-
shore transects in 650 km-coastal dune remnants of the south Caspian Sea, Iran. The five …

The herb Arctotheca calendula (capeweed) is reported as a new record for Iran. A detailed
description, a distribution map, colour photographs of an herbarium sample, and diagnostic …