Université de Fribourg

Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Essl, Franz ; Genovesi, Piero ; Harrower, Colin A. ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Jeschke, Jonathan M. ; Kenis, Marc ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Perglová, Irena ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, David B. ; Roy, Helen E. ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Winter, Marten ; Nentwig, Wolfgang

In: NeoBiota, 2017, vol. 32, p. 1–20

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established alien plants, mammals, freshwater fish and terrestrial invertebrates with known ecological impacts are associated with particular introduction pathways (release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided). We used the information from...

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Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of native European ladybirds

Roy, Helen E. ; Adriaens, Tim ; Isaac, Nick J. B. ; Kenis, Marc ; Onkelinx, Thierry ; Martin, Gilles San ; Brown, Peter M. J. ; Hautier, Louis ; Poland, Remy ; Roy, David B. ; Comont, Richard ; Eschen, René ; Frost, Robert ; Zindel, Renate ; Vlaenderen, Johan Van ; Nedvěd, Oldrich ; Ravn, Hans Peter ; Grégoire, Jean Claude ; Biseau, Jean Christophe de ; Maes, Dirk

In: Diversity and Distributions, 2012, p. -

Aim Invasive alien species (IAS) are recognized as major drivers of biodiversity loss, but few causal relationships between IAS and species declines have been documented. In this study, we compare the distribution (Belgium and Britain) and abundance (Belgium, Britain and Switzerland) of formerly common and widespread native ladybirds before and after the arrival of Harmonia axyridis, a...

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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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Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

Winter, Marten ; Schweiger, Oliver ; Klotz, Stefan ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Andriopoulos, Pavlos ; Arianoutsou, Margarita ; Basnou, Corina ; Delipetrou, Pinelopi ; Didžiulis, Viktoras ; Hejda, Martin ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Lambdon, Philip W. ; Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Roy, David B. ; Kühn, Ingolf

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009, vol. 106, no. 51, p. 21721-21725

Human activities have altered the composition of biotas through two fundamental processes: native extinctions and alien introductions. Both processes affect the taxonomic (i.e., species identity) and phylogenetic (i.e., species evolutionary history) structure of species assemblages. However, it is not known what the relative magnitude of these effects is at large spatial scales. Here we analyze...