• Autofertility and self-compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants 

  Razanajatovo, M.; van Kleunen, M.; Kreft, H.; Dawson, W.; Essl, F.; Pergl, J.; Pysek, P.; Winter, M.; Weigelt, P. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aim: The current geographical distribution of species largely reflects colonization success after natural long‐distance dispersal or introduction by humans. Plants with selfing ability should have an advantage when ...

• Monitoring consumptive resource use in South African national parks 

  Vermeulen, W.; van Wilgen, N.; Smith, K.; Dopolo, M.; Swemmer, L.; Annecke, W.; Bezuidenhout, H.; Durrheim, G.; Hanekom, N.; Hendricks, H.; McGeoch, M.; Ngubeni, N.; Symonds, A. (AOSIS, 2019)

  Monitoring is an essential component of measuring the performance of protected areas. This requirement led to the development of a biodiversity monitoring system for South African National Parks (SANParks). The system ...

• Risks of biological invasion on the belt and road 

  Liu, X.; Blackburn, T.M.; Song, T.; Li, X.; Huang, C.; Li, Y. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019)

  China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an unprecedented global development program that involves nearly half of the world’s countries [1]. It not only will have economic and political influences, but also may generate ...

• Widely distribuded native and alien plant species differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and related functional trait interactions 

  Menzel, A.; Hempel, S.; Davison, J.; Moora, M.; Pysek, P.; Rillig, M.C.; Zobel, M.; Kuhn, I. (Nordic Society Oikos, 2018)

  It is debated whether alien plants in new environments benefit from being mycorrhizal and whether widely distributed natives and aliens differ in their associations with mycorrhizal fungi. Here, we compared whether species ...

• Functionally richer communities improve ecosystem functioning: Dung removal and secondary seed dispersal by dung beetles in the Western Palaearctic 

  Milotic, T.; Baltzinger, C.; Eichberg, C.; Eycott, A.E.; Heurich, M.; Muller, J.; Noriega, J.A.; Menendez, R.; Stadler, J.; Adam, R.; Bargmann, T.; Bilger, I.; Buse, J.; Calatayud, J.; Ciubuc, C.; Boros, G.; Jay-Robert, P.; Kruus, M.; Merivee, E.; Miessen, G.; Must, A.; Ardali, E.; Preda, E.; Rahimi, I.; Rohwedder, D.; Rose, R.; Slade, E.M.; Somay, L.; Tahmasebi, P.; Ziani, S.; Hoffmann, M. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)

  Aim: In several ecosystems, the diversity of functional species traits has been shown to have a stronger effect on ecosystem functioning than taxonomic diversity alone. However, few studies have explored this idea at a ...

• Complementary endozoochorous seed dispersal by large mammals in the Golestan National Park, Iran 

  Karimi, S.; Hemami, M.-R.; Esfahani, M.T.; Akhani, H.; Baltzinger, C. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  Large animals tend to disperse seeds over long distances via ingestion and defecation due to their large home range and capacity to move among different habitats for feeding. The aim of this study was to investigate the ...

• The role of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the plant seed dispersal of Golestan National Park 

  Karimi, S.; Hemami, M.R.; Tarkesh Esfahani, M.; Baltzinger, C. (2018)

  The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is the largest carnivore species in Iran. It can be found in large parts of the Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges, but remarkable densities occur in the northern forest, ranging from Golestan ...

• 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 ...

• 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)

• 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 ...

• Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide 

  Moser, D.; Lenzner, B.; Weigelt, P.; Dawson, W.; Kreft, H.; Pergl, J.; Pysek, P.; van Kleunen, M.; Winter, M.; Capinha, C.; Cassey, P.; Dullinger, S.; Economo, E.P.; Garcia-Diaz, P.; Guenard, B.; Hofhansl, F.; Mang, T.; Seebens, H.; Essl, F. (National Academy of Sciences, 2018)

  One of the best-known general patterns in island biogeography is the species–isolation relationship (SIR), a decrease in the number of native species with increasing island isolation that is linked to lower rates of natural ...

• Reaching new heights: can drones replace current methods to study plant population dynamics? 

  Tay, J.Y.L.; Erfmeier, A.; Kalwij, J.M. (Springer, 2018)

  Spatially explicit data on heterogeneously distributed plant populations are difficult to quantify using either traditional field-based methods or remote sensing techniques alone. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) offer new ...

• Plant diversity drives global patterns of insect invasions 

  Liebhold, A.M.; Yamanaka, T.; Roques, A.; Augustin, S.; Chown, S.L.; Brockerhoff, E.G.; Pysek, P. (Nature, 2018)

  During the last two centuries, thousands of insect species have been transported (largely inadvertently) and established outside of their native ranges worldwide, some with catastrophic ecological and economic impacts. ...

• High resolution temperature data for ecological research and management on the Southern Ocean Islands 

  Leihy, R.I.; Duffy, G.A.; Nortje, E.; Chown, S.L. (Nature, 2018)

  Southern Ocean Islands are globally significant conservation areas. Predicting how their terrestrial ecosystems will respond to current and forecast climate change is essential for their management and requires high-quality ...

• Invasive potential and management of naturalised ornamentals across an urban environmental gradient with a focus on Centranthus ruber 

  Holmes, P.M.; Rebelo, A.G.; Irlich, U.M. (AOSIS, 2018)

  Background: Predicting which alien species may become invasive is important in prioritizing scarce resources for management. Objectives: Sixteen naturalised ornamentals in Cape Town were assessed for invasion potential ...

• Mountain roads and non-native species modify elevational patterns of plant diversity 

  Haider, S.; Kueffer, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Seipel, T.; Alexander, J.M.; Rew, L.J.; Arevalo, J.R.; Cavieres, L.A.; McDougall, K.L.; Milbau, A.; Naylor, B.J.; Speziale, K.; Pauchard, A. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Aim: We investigated patterns of species richness and community dissimilarity along elevation gradients using globally replicated, standardized surveys of vascular plants. We asked how these patterns of diversity are ...

• The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions 

  van Kleunen, M.; Essl, F.; Pergl, J.; Brundi, G.; Carboni, M.; Dullinger, S.; Early, R.; Gonzalez-Moreno, P.; Groom, Q.J.; Hulme, P.E.; Kueffer, C.; Kuhn, I.; Maguas, C.; Maurel, N.; Novoa, A.; Parepa, M.; Pysek, P.; Seebens, H.; Tanner, R.; Touza, J.; Verbrugge, L.; Weber, E.; Dawson, W.; Kreft, H.; Weigelt, P.; Winter, M.; Klonner, G.; Talluto, M.W.; Dehnen-Schmutz, K. (Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2018)

  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 ornamental horticulture in plant ...

• Climate warming drives invasion history of Ambrosia artemisiifolia in central Europe 

  Mang, T.; Essl, F.; Moser, D.; Dullinger, S. (Czech Botanical Society, 2018)

  It is thought that future climate change is likely to foster biological invasions, but effects of climate warming on invasions in recent decades are little explored. In this paper, we analyse the history of the spread of ...

• First record of sound production by a South African minnow, Pseudobarbus burchelli (Teleostei: Cyprinidae), the Breede River redfin 

  Lowe, S.R.; Skelton, P.H. (2008)

• An integrated, spatio-temporal modelling framework for analysing biological invasions 

  Mang, T.; Essl, F.; Moser, D.; Kleinbauer, I.; Dullinger, S. (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)

  Aim: We develop a novel modelling framework for analysing the spatio-temporal spread of biological invasions. The framework integrates different invasion drivers and disentangles their roles in determining observed ...

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