The number of alien plants escaping from cultivation into native ecosystems is increasing
steadily. We provide an overview of the historical, contemporary and potential future roles of …

Invasive nonindigenous plant species (NIPS) threaten native diversity, alter ecosystem
processes, and may interact with other components of global environmental change. Here, a …

Any organism must be equipped for life in a given environment, otherwise it will die. The
fundamental question is how well does an organism need to be “equipped”, or what …

Recent hypotheses argue that phylogenetic relatedness should predict both the niche
differences that stabilise coexistence and the average fitness differences that drive …

The paper provides the first estimate of the composition and structure of alien plants
occurring in the wild in the European continent, based on the results of the DAISIE project …

Over the past decades, climate change has induced transformations in the weed flora of
arable ecosystems in Europe. For instance, thermophile weeds, late-emerging weeds, and …

Invasive alien species are a great threat to biodiversity and human livelihoods worldwide.
The most effective way to limit their impacts and costs is to prevent their introduction into new …

Summary 1 Government departments, environmental managers and conservationists are all
facing escalating pressure to address and resolve a diversity of invasive alien species (IAS) …

Global change may substantially affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning but little is
known about its effects on essential biotic interactions. Since different environmental drivers …

Urban development is increasing across the globe. This poses a major threat to biodiversity,
which is often relatively poor in towns and cities. Despite much interest in identifying species' …