There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years,
but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists …

Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the
rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien …

▪ Abstract A growing number of species have been transported and introduced by humans
to new locations and have established self-sustaining wild populations beyond their natural …

… ”, and scientia, “knowledge”), to be obtained by whatever methods are most appropriate to
the particular field’, and several others are appropriate to macroecology (Gaston & Blackburn …

Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified
during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien species …

The arrival of humans on oceanic islands has precipitated a wave of extinctions among the
islands' native birds. Nevertheless, the magnitude of this extinction event varies markedly …

Biodiversity hotspots have a prominent role in conservation biology 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ,
9 , but it remains controversial to what extent different types of hotspot are congruent 4 , 10 , …

Land use change—for example, the conversion of natural habitats to agricultural or urban
ecosystems—is widely recognized to influence the risk and emergence of zoonotic disease in …

1997 marked the sesquicentenary of the publication by Carl Bergmann of the observation
that, in general, large‐bodied animal species tend to live further north than their small‐bodied …

We assessed the prevalence of alien species as a driver of recent extinctions in five major
taxa (plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), using data from the IUCN Red List. …