• Biology of Invasive Plants 1. Pyracantha angustifolia (Franch.) CK Schneid 

  Chari, L.D.; Martin, G.D.; Steenhuisen, S.L.; Adams, L.D.; Clark, V.R. (2020)

• Shrinking before our isles: the rapid expression of insular dwarfism in two invasive populations of guttural toad (Sclerophrys gutturalis) 

  Baxter-Gilbert, J.; Riley, J.L.; Wagener, C.; Mohanty, N.P.; Measey, J. (2020)

  Island ecosystems have traditionally been hailed as natural laboratories for examining phenotypic change, including dramatic shifts in body size. Similarly, biological invasions can drive rapid localized adaptations within ...

• Applying the Convention on Biological Diversity Pathway Classification to alien species in Europe 

  Pergl, J.; Brundu, G.; Harrower, C.A.; Cardoso, A.C.; Genovesi, P.; Katsanevakis, S.; Lozano, V.; Perglova, I.; Rabitsch, W.; Richards, G.; Roques, A.; Rorke, S.L.; Scalera, R.; Schonrogge, K.; Stewart, A.; Tricarico, E.; Tsiamis, K.; Vannini, A.; Vil, M.; Zenetos, A.; Roy, H.E. (2020)

  The number of alien species arriving within new regions has increased at unprecedented rates. Managing the pathways through which alien species arrive and spread is important to reduce the threat of biological invasions. ...

• The effect of accessibility and value addition on the costs of controlling invasive alien plants in South Africa: A three-species system dynamics model in the fynbos and grassland biomes 

  Crookes, D.J.; Blignaut, J.N.; Le Maitre, D.C. (2020)

  We developed a two-biome (grasslands and fynbos) system dynamics model simulating invasions of three invasive alien plant species - black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) and two pine species (Pinus patula and Pinus pinaster) - ...

• The effect of cross-boundary management on the trajectory to commonness in biological invasions 

  Latombe, G.; Essl, F.; McGeoch, M.A. (2020)

  The number of alien species introduced and undergoing range expansion in novel environments is steadily increasing, with important consequences for native ecosystems. The efficacy of management planning and decision making ...

• Improving the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT): a summary of revisions to the framework and guidelines 

  Volery, L.; Blackburn, T.M.; Bertolino, S.; Evans, T.; Genovesi, P.; Kumschick, S.; Roy, H.E.; Smith, K.G.; Bacher, S. (2020)

  The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) classifies the impacts caused by alien species in their introduced range in standardised terms across taxa and recipient environments. Impacts are classified ...

• Water deprivation drives intraspecific variability in lizard heat tolerance 

  Herrando-Perez, S.; Belliure, J.; Ferri-Yanez, F.; van den Burg, M.P.; Beukema, W.; Araujo, M.B.; Terblanche, J.S.; Vieites, D.R. (2020)

  Quantifying intraspecific variation in heat tolerance is critical to understand how species respond to climate change. In a previous study, we recorded variability in critical thermal maxima (CTmax) by 3 degrees C among ...

• Effects of Lantana camara invasion on vegetation diversity and composition in the Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, Limpopo Province of South Africa 

  Ruwanza, S. (2020)

  Although the effects of invasive alien plants on natural ecosystems are widely acknowledged, the effects of specific plant species can be context dependent. The study examined changes in native vegetation diversity and ...

• Abundance and distribution of the invasive polychaete Ficopomatus enigmaticus in three South African estuaries 

  Bezuidenhout, M.; Robinson, T.B. (2020)

  Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel 1923) is a reef-building serpulid polychaete that is found in warm and temperate estuaries across the globe. This ecosystem engineer causes ecological and socio-economic impacts in invaded ...

• Appropriate uses of EICAT protocol, data and classifications 

  Kumschick, S.; Bacher, S.; Bertolino, S.; Blackburn, T.M.; Evans, T.; Roy, H.E.; Smith, K. (2020)

  The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) can be used to classify alien taxa according to the magnitude and type of their environmental impacts. The EICAT protocol, classifications of alien taxa using ...

• Koedoe: Changing of the guard 

  Foxcroft, L.C. (2020)

• Water-use characteristics of Palmiet (Prionium serratum), an endemic South African wetland plant 

  Rebelo, A.J.; Jarmaln, C.; Esler, K.J.; Cowling, R.M.; Le Maitre, D.C. (2020)

  Palmiet, Prionium serratum, is an endemic wetland plant which dominates oligotrophic wetlands throughout the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa. Palmiet is often perceived as undesirable by landowners, in part because it ...

• Exploring the potential of feature selection methods in the classification of urban trees using field spectroscopy data 

  Jombo, S.; Adam, E.; Byrne, M.J.; Ali, K.A.; Newete, S.W. (2020)

  Mapping of vegetation at the species level using hyperspectral satellite data can be effective and accurate because of its high spectral and spatial resolutions that can detect detailed information of a target object. Its ...

• Understanding uncertainty in the Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (ICAT) assessments 

  Probert, A.F.; Volery, L.; Kumschick, S.; Vimercati, G.; Bacher, S. (2020)

  The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) and the Socio-Economic Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (SEICAT) have been proposed to provide unified methods for classifying alien species according to ...

• Scale invariance in the spatial-dynamics of biological invasions 

  Liebhold, A.M.; Keitt, T.H.; Goel, N.; Bertelsmeier, C. (2020)

  Despite the enormous negative consequences of biological invasions, we have a limited understanding of how spatial demography during invasions creates population patterns observed at different spatial scales. Early stages ...

• MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions 

  Pyšek, P.; Bacher, S.; Kühn, I.; Novoa, A.; Catford, J.A.; Hulme, P.E.; Pergl, J.; Richardson, D.M.; Wilson, J.R.U.; Blackburn, T.M. (2020)

  Macroecology is the study of patterns, and the processes that determine those patterns, in the distribution and abundance of organisms at large scales, whether they be spatial (from hundreds of kilometres to global), ...

• Is invasion science moving towards agreed standards? The influence of selected frameworks 

  Wilson, J.R.U.; Datta, A.; Hirsch, H.; Keet, J.-H.; Mbobo, T.; Nkuna, K.V.; Nsikani, M.M.; Pyšek, P.; Richardson, D.M.; Zengeya, T.A.; Kumschick, S. (2020)

  The need to understand and manage biological invasions has driven the development of frameworks to circumscribe, classify, and elucidate aspects of the phenomenon. But how influential have these frameworks really been? To ...

• The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species 

  Vimercati, G.; Kumschick, S.; Probert, A.F.; Volery, L.; Bacher, S. (2020)

  Extensive literature is available on the diversity and magnitude of impacts that alien species cause on recipient systems. Alien species may decrease or increase attributes of ecosystems (e.g. total biomass or species ...

• Identifying safe cultivars of invasive plants: six questions for risk assessment, management, and communication 

  Datta, A.; Kumschick, S.; Geerts, S.; Wilson, J.R.U. (2020)

  The regulation of biological invasions is often focussed at the species level. However, the risks posed by infra- and inter-specific entities can be significantly different from the risks posed by the corresponding species, ...

• Frameworks used in invasion science: progress and prospects 

  Wilson, J.R.U.; Bacher, S.; Daehler, C.C.; Groom, Q.J.; Kumschick, S.; Lockwood, J.L.; Robinson, T.B.; Zengeya, T.A.; Richardson, D.M. (2020)

  Our understanding and management of biological invasions relies on our ability to classify and conceptualise the phenomenon. This need has stimulated the development of a plethora of frameworks, ranging in nature from ...

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