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Which factors affect the success or failure of eradication campaigns against alien species?

Pluess, Therese ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Pyšek, Petr ; Cannon, Ray ; Pergl, Jan ; Breukers, Annemarie ; Bacher, Sven

In: PLoS ONE, 2012, vol. 7, no. 10, p. e48157

Although issues related to the management of invasive alien species are receiving increasing attention, little is known about which factors affect the likelihood of success of management measures. We applied two data mining techniques, classification trees and boosted trees, to identify factors that relate to the success of management campaigns aimed at eradicating invasive alien invertebrates,...

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When are eradication campaigns successful? A test of common assumptions

Pluess, Therese ; Cannon, Ray ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven

In: Biological Invasions, 2012, vol. 14, no. 7, p. 1365-1378

Eradication aims at eliminating populations of alien organisms from an area. Since not all eradications are successful, several factors have been proposed in the literature (mainly by referring to case studies) to be crucial for eradication success, such as infestation size or reaction time. To our knowledge, however, no study has statistically evaluated which factors affect eradication...

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A proposed unified framework for biological invasions

Blackburn, Tim M. ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Carlton, James T. ; Duncan, Richard P. ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Wilson, John R.U. ; Richardson, David M.

In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2011, vol. 26, no. 7, p. 333-339

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 concerned with different taxa and different environments have largely adopted different model frameworks for the invasion process, resulting in a confusing range of concepts, terms and definitions. In this review, we...

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Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

Pyšek, Petr ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Wild, Jan ; Arianoutsou, Margarita ; Bacher, Sven ; Chiron, Francois ; Didžiulis, Viktoras ; Essl, Franz ; Genovesi, Piero ; Gherardi, Francesca ; Hejda, Martin ; Kark, Salit ; Lambdon, Philip W. ; Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Pergl, Jan ; Poboljšaj, Katja ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, David B. ; Shirley, Susan ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Winter, Marten

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, vol. 107, no. 27, p. 12157-12162

The accelerating rates of international trade, travel, and transport in the latter half of the twentieth century have led to the progressive mixing of biota from across the world and the number of species introduced to new regions continues to increase. The importance of biogeographic, climatic, economic, and demographic factors as drivers of this trend is increasingly being realized but as yet...

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Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Chytrý, Milan ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Wild, Jan ; Celesti-Grapow, Laura ; Gassó, Núria ; Kenis, Marc ; Lambdon, Philip W. ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Pergl, Jan ; Roques, Alain ; Sádlo, Jiří ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Hulme, Philip E.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2010, p. -

Aim To provide the first comparative overview on the current numbers of alien species that invade representative European terrestrial and freshwater habitats for a range of taxonomic groups. Location Europe. Methods Numbers of naturalized alien species of plants, insects, herptiles, birds and mammals occurring in 10 habitats defined according to the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) were...

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Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

Walther, Gian-Reto ; Roques, Alain ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Sykes, Martin T. ; Pyšek, Petr ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Zobel, Martin ; Bacher, Sven ; Botta-Dukát, Zoltán ; Bugmann, Harald ; Czúcz, Bálint ; Dauber, Jens ; Hickler, Thomas ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Kenis, Marc ; Klotz, Stefan ; Minchin, Dan ; Moora, Mari ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Ott, Jürgen ; Panov, Vadim E. ; Reineking, Björn ; Robinet, Christelle ; Semenchenko, Vitaliy ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Thuiller, Wilfried ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Vohland, Katrin ; Settele, Josef

In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009, vol. 24, no. 12, p. 686-693

Climate change and biological invasions are key processes affecting global biodiversity, yet their effects have usually been considered separately. Here, we emphasise that global warming has enabled alien species to expand into regions in which they previously could not survive and reproduce. Based on a review of climate-mediated biological invasions of plants, invertebrates, fishes and birds, we...