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 …

Highlights•Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services has far reaching societal
relevance.•A user-driven monitoring framework is needed to address the biodiversity …

Much research effort has been invested in understanding ecological impacts of invasive
alien species (IAS) across ecosystems and taxonomic groups, but empirical studies about …

Invasive species threaten biodiversity globally, and invasive mammalian predators are
particularly damaging, having contributed to considerable species decline and extinction …

Invasive alien species (IAS) threaten human livelihoods and biodiversity globally. Increasing
globalization facilitates IAS arrival, and environmental changes, including climate change …

Many alien taxa are known to cause socio‐economic impacts by affecting the different
constituents of human well‐being (security; material and non‐material assets; health; social …

Aim To use global databases to (1) provide a visualization of global geographical patterns of
species invasions, origins and pathways and (2) depict the international uptake of legislative …

Managing invasive alien species is particularly challenging in the ocean mainly because
marine ecosystems are highly connected across broad spatial scales. Eradication of marine …

Managing biological invasions relies on good global coverage of species distributions.
Accurate information on alien species distributions, obtained from international policy and …

Invasive alien species (IASs) on islands have broad impacts across biodiversity, agriculture,
economy, health and culture, which tend to be stronger than on continents. Across small …