• Managing urban plant invasions: a multi-criteria prioritization approach 

  Potgieter, L.J.; Gaertner, M.; Irlich, U.M.; O'Farrell, P.J.; Stafford, L.; Vogt, H.; Richardson, D.M. (Springer, 2018)

  Alien plant invasions in urban areas can have considerable impact on biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES). Managing urban plant invasions is particularly challenging given the complex interactions between ecological, ...

• Invasive frogs in Sao Paulo display a substantial invasion lag 

  Toledo, L.F.; Measey, J. (REABIC, 2018)

  The first report of the invasion of the Robber frog Eleutherodactylus johnstonei Barbour, 1914 in the municipality of São Paulo was made in 2014. However, we report here that sound records of this species in the same area ...

• Molecular phylogenetics reveals a complex history underlying cryptic diversity in the Bush Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis wahlbergii) in southern Africa 

  Tolley, K.A.; Conradie, W.; Harvey, J.; Measey, J.; Blackburn, D.C. (Zoological Society of Southern Africa, 2018)

  Throughout the Miocene, the African landscape underwent broad climatic shifts that profoundly influenced the distribution of fauna and flora. Since the late Miocene, these shifts have created a landscape in southern Africa ...

• First record of the maritime earwig Anisolabis maritima (Bonelli, 1832) (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae) from South Africa 

  Grffiths, C.L. (REABIC, 2018)

  The first records of the maritime earwig Anisolabis maritima from South Africa are reported. The species was first discovered in 2015 in the upper intertidal zone of an artificial rubble causeway at Port Shepstone, on the ...

• Stakeholder engagement in the study and management of invasive alien species 

  Shackleton, R.T.; Adriaens, T.; Brundu, G.; Dehnen-Schmutz, K.; Estevez, R.A.; Fried, J.; Larson, B.M.H.; Liu, S.; Marchante, H.; Moshobane, M.C.; Novoa, A.; Reed, M.; Richardson, D.M. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)

  Invasive alien species are a major driver of global environmental change and a range of management interventions are needed to manage their effects on biodiversity, ecosystem services, human well-being and local livelihoods. ...

• Species richness patterns and functional traits of the bat fauna of arid southern Africa 

  Monadjem, A.; Conenna, I.; Taylor, P.J.; Schoeman, M.C. (Associazione Teriologica Italiana, 2018)

  The bat fauna of arid regions is still poorly studied mostly due to a lack of interest in areas with low species richness and a low number of threatened species. In this study, we reviewed the status of bat diversity in ...

• Biodiversity assessments: Origin matters 

  Pauchard, A.; Meyerson, L.A.; Bacher, S.; Blackburn, T.M.; Brundu, G.; Cadotte, M.W.; Courchamp, F.; Essl, F.; Genovesi, P.; Haider, S.; Holmes, N.D.; Hulme, P.E.; Jeschke, J.M.; Lockwood, J.L.; Novoa, A.; Nunez, M.A.; Peltzer, D.A.; Pysek, P.; Richardson, D.M.; Simberloff, D.; Smith, K.; van Wilgen, B.W.; Vila, M.; Wilson, J.R.U.; Winter, M.; Zenni, R.D. (Creative Commons Attribution License, 2018)

  Recent global efforts in biodiversity accounting, such as those undertaken through the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), ...

• Medium-term vegetation recovery after removal of invasive Eucalyptus camaldulensis stands along a South African river 

  Ruwanza, S.; Gaertner, M.; Esler, K.J.; Richardson, D.M. (Elsevier B.V., 2018)

  Effective ecological restoration requires detailed monitoring to determine the success achieved through different interventions in achieving objectives. In 2017, we resurveyed riparian sites along the Berg River in the ...

• Similarity of introduced plant species to native ones facilitates naturalization, but differences enhance invasion success 

  Divisek, J.; Chytry, M.; Beckage, B.; Gotelli, N.J.; Lososova, Z.; Pysek, P.; Richardson, D.M.; Molofsky, J. (Nature, 2018)

  The search for traits associated with plant invasiveness has yielded contradictory results, in part because most previous studies have failed to recognize that different traits are important at different stages along the ...

• Insights on the persistence of pines (Pinus species) in the Late Cretaceous and their increasing dominance in the Anthropocene 

  Singh, S.P.; Inderjit; Singh, J.S.; Majumdar, S.; Moyano, J.; Nunez, M.A.; Richardson, D.M. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Although gymnosperms were nearly swept away by the rise of the angiosperms in the Late Cretaceous, conifers, and pines (Pinus species) in particular, survived and regained their dominance in some habitats. Diversification ...

• Impact of invasive alien plants on water provision in selected catchments 

  Preston, I.R.; Le Maitre, D.C.; Blignaut, J.N.; Louw, L.; Palmer, C.G. (Creative Commons Attribution License, 2018)

  We analyse the impact of failing to control invasive alien plants (IAPs) on the water supply to the Berg River and De Hoop Dams, in other words, the opportunity cost of not clearing IAPs in these two catchments. To do this ...

• The impact of data precision on the effectiveness of alien plant control programmes: a case study from a protected area 

  Cheney, C.; Esler, K.J.; Foxcroft, L.C.; van Wilgen, N.J.; McGeoch, M.A. (Springer, 2018)

  Successful long-term invasive alien plant control programmes rely on alien plant distribution and abundance data to assess, prioritise, implement and monitor the efficacy of the programme. Here we assess the impact of data ...

• Local knowledge regarding ecosystem services and disservices from invasive alien plants in the arid Kalahari, South Africa 

  Shackleton, S.E.; Shackleton, R.T. (Elsevier Ltd., 2018)

• The ghost of introduction past: Spatial and temporal variability in the genetic diversity of invasive smallmouth bass. 

  Diedericks, G.; Henriques, R.; von der Heyden, S.; Weyl, O.L.F.; Hui, C. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Understanding the demographic history of introduced populations is essential for unravelling their invasive potential and adaptability to a novel environment. To this end, levels of genetic diversity within the native and ...

• Social-ecological drivers and impacts of invasion-related regime shifts: consequences for ecosystem services and human wellbeing 

  Shackleton, R.T.; Biggs, Reinette; Richardson, D.M.; Larson, B.M.H. (Elsevier Ltd, 2018)

  There are growing concerns that increasing global environmental pressures could lead to the exceedance of critical ecological thresholds that could trigger long-lasting regime shifts that will affect the structure and ...

• Invaders among locals: Alien species decrease phylogenetic and functional diversity while increasing dissimilarity among native community members 

  Loiola, P.P.; De Bello, F.; Chytry, M.; Gotzenberger, L.; Carmona, C.P.; Pysek, P.; Lososova, Z. (British Ecological Society, 2018)

  1. Plant invasions can drastically change the structure of native communities, but it is not fully understood whether alien species occupy phylogenetic and functional space within the range occupied by natives, or provide ...

• What’s for dinner? Diet and potential trophic impact of an invasive anuran Hoplobatrachus tigerinus on the Andaman archipelago 

  Mohanty, N.P.; Measey, J. (CC-BY 4.0, 2018)

  Amphibian invasions have considerable detrimental impacts on recipient ecosystems. However, reliable risk analysis of invasive amphibians still requires research on more non-native amphibian species. An invasive population ...

• Ananlysis of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-1 and kisspeptin neuronal systems in the nonphotoregulated seasonally breeding eastern rock elephant-shrew (Elephantulus myurus) 

  Medger, K.; Bennett, N.C.; Chimimba, C.T.; Oosthuizen, M.K.; Mikkelsen, J.D.; Coen, C.W. (Wiley Periodicals Inc., 2018)

  Of the 18 sub-Saharan elephant-shrew species, only eastern rock elephant-shrews reproduce seasonally throughout their distribution, a process seemingly independent of photoperiod. The present study characterizes gonadal ...

• Functional responses of a cosmopolitan invader demonstrate intraspecific variability in consumer-resource dynamics 

  Howard, B.R.; Barrios-O'Neill, D.; Alexander, M.E.; Dick, J.T.A.; Therriault, T.W.; Robinson, T.B.; Cote, I.M. (CCBY, 2018)

  Background. Variability in the ecological impacts of invasive species across their geographical ranges may decrease the accuracy of risk assessments. Comparative functional response analysis can be used to estimate invasive ...

• Indicators for monitoring biological invasions at a national level 

  Wilson, J.R.U.; Faulkner, K.T.; Rahlao, S.J.; Richardson, D.M.; Zengeya, T.A.; van Wilgen, B.W. (British Ecological Society, 2018)

  1. A major challenge for the management of biological invasions is to ensure that data and information from basic inventories and ecological research are used alongside data from the monitoring and evaluation of interventions ...

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