Biodiversity and nature assessments such as the US National Nature Assessment assess
the state of biodiversity and the contributions of nature to humans.. Using three species …

Island ecosystems are particularly susceptible to the impacts of invasive species. Many rare
and endangered species that are endemic to islands are negatively affected by invasions …

Alien species are considered a major driver of extinction risk. Preventing high-impact aliens
from being introduced is more necessary than ever to mitigate the current biodiversity crisis …

Aims Most naturalized plants are escapees from cultivation. Inventories of cultivated
introduced species thus offer unique, still underutilized, opportunities to assess …

This is the first study providing an up-to-date account of the alien flora in Uzbekistan and
analyzing the relationship between the invasion status (casual, naturalized, invasive) of …

Alien species are colonizing mountain ecosystems and increasing their elevation ranges in
response to ongoing climate change and anthropogenic disturbances, posing increasing …

Climate change is a crucial factor impacting the geographical distribution of plants and
potentially increases the risk of invasion for certain species, especially for aquatic plants …

Alien species can have massive impacts on native biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and
human livelihoods. Assessing which species from currently cultivated alien floras may …

Niche conservatism posits that a species' non‐native populations establish in areas that
match their native environmental conditions. Although the Ponto‐Caspian biodiversity …

This study examines how geography, environmental factors, and human history shape the
composition of dung beetle assemblages on Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands. We …