Université de Fribourg

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...