Why are invasive plants successful?

M Gioria, PE Hulme, DM Richardson… - Annual Review of Plant …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Plant invasions, a byproduct of globalization, are increasing worldwide. Because of their
ecological and economic impacts, considerable efforts have been made to understand and …

Addressing context dependence in ecology

JA Catford, JRU Wilson, P Pyšek, PE Hulme… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Context dependence is widely invoked to explain disparate results in ecology. It arises when
the magnitude or sign of a relationship varies due to the conditions under which it is …

What we still don't know about invasion genetics

DG Bock, C Caseys, RD Cousens… - … genetics: The baker …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Summary Publication of The Genetics of Colonizing Species in 1965 launched the field of
invasion genetics and highlighted the value of biological invasions as natural ecological and …

Invader Relative Impact Potential: a new metric to understand and predict the ecological impacts of existing, emerging and future invasive alien species

JTA Dick, C Laverty, JJ Lennon… - Journal of Applied …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Predictions of the identities and ecological impacts of invasive alien species are critical for
risk assessment, but presently we lack universal and standardized metrics that reliably …

The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next?

L Gallien, M Carboni - Ecography, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Alien species are continually introduced in most regions of the world, but not all survive and
coexist with the resident native species. Approaches analyzing the functional (or …

On the accumulation of deleterious mutations during range expansions

S Peischl, I Dupanloup, M Kirkpatrick… - Molecular …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
We investigate the effect of spatial range expansions on the evolution of fitness when
beneficial and deleterious mutations cosegregate. We perform individual‐based simulations …

Advancing impact prediction and hypothesis testing in invasion ecology using a comparative functional response approach

JTA Dick, ME Alexander, JM Jeschke, A Ricciardi… - Biological …, 2014‏ - Springer
Invasion ecology urgently requires predictive methodologies that can forecast the ecological
impacts of existing, emerging and potential invasive species. We argue that many …

Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity

AL Smith, TR Hodkinson, J Villellas, JA Catford… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
When plants establish outside their native range, their ability to adapt to the new
environment is influenced by both demography and dispersal. However, the relative …

An ecological and evolutionary framework for commensalism in anthropogenic environments

A Hulme-Beaman, K Dobney, T Cucchi… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2016‏ - cell.com
Commensalism within anthropogenic environments has not been extensively discussed,
despite its impact on humans, and there is no formal framework for assessing this ecological …

Naturalization of central European plants in North America: species traits, habitats, propagule pressure, residence time

P Pyšek, AM Manceur, C Alba, KF McGregor, J Pergl… - Ecology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
The factors that promote invasive behavior in introduced plant species occur across many
scales of biological and ecological organization. Factors that act at relatively small scales …