Nature Communications (Feb 2017)
No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide
- Hanno Seebens,
- Tim M. Blackburn,
- Ellie E. Dyer,
- Piero Genovesi,
- Philip E. Hulme,
- Jonathan M. Jeschke,
- Shyama Pagad,
- Petr Pyšek,
- Marten Winter,
- Margarita Arianoutsou,
- Sven Bacher,
- Bernd Blasius,
- Giuseppe Brundu,
- César Capinha,
- Laura Celesti-Grapow,
- Wayne Dawson,
- Stefan Dullinger,
- Nicol Fuentes,
- Heinke Jäger,
- John Kartesz,
- Marc Kenis,
- Holger Kreft,
- Ingolf Kühn,
- Bernd Lenzner,
- Andrew Liebhold,
- Alexander Mosena,
- Dietmar Moser,
- Misako Nishino,
- David Pearman,
- Jan Pergl,
- Wolfgang Rabitsch,
- Julissa Rojas-Sandoval,
- Alain Roques,
- Stephanie Rorke,
- Silvia Rossinelli,
- Helen E. Roy,
- Riccardo Scalera,
- Stefan Schindler,
- Kateřina Štajerová,
- Barbara Tokarska-Guzik,
- Mark van Kleunen,
- Kevin Walker,
- Patrick Weigelt,
- Takehiko Yamanaka,
- Franz Essl
Affiliations
- Hanno Seebens
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Tim M. Blackburn
- Department of Genetics, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Evolution and Environment, University College London
- Ellie E. Dyer
- Department of Genetics, Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Evolution and Environment, University College London
- Piero Genovesi
- Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA)
- Philip E. Hulme
- Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University
- Jonathan M. Jeschke
- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)
- Shyama Pagad
- IUCN Species Survival Commission Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), University of Auckland
- Petr Pyšek
- Department of Botany and Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University
- Marten Winter
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Margarita Arianoutsou
- Department of Ecology and Systematics, Faculty of Biology, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Sven Bacher
- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg
- Bernd Blasius
- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg
- Giuseppe Brundu
- Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari
- César Capinha
- CIBIO/InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Cátedra Infraestruturas de Portugal-Biodiversidade, Universidade do Porto
- Laura Celesti-Grapow
- Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University
- Wayne Dawson
- Department of Ecology, University of Konstanz
- Stefan Dullinger
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Nicol Fuentes
- Departamento de Botánica, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción
- Heinke Jäger
- Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora
- John Kartesz
- Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
- Marc Kenis
- CABI, Rue des Grillons 1
- Holger Kreft
- Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- Ingolf Kühn
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig
- Bernd Lenzner
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Andrew Liebhold
- US Forest Service Northern Research Station
- Alexander Mosena
- Department of Experimental and Systems Ecology, Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS), Bielefeld University
- Dietmar Moser
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Misako Nishino
- Biota of North America Program (BONAP)
- David Pearman
- Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
- Jan Pergl
- Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences
- Wolfgang Rabitsch
- Department of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, Environment Agency Austria
- Julissa Rojas-Sandoval
- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, MRC-166 Smithsonian Institution
- Alain Roques
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
- Stephanie Rorke
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
- Silvia Rossinelli
- Department of Biology, University of Fribourg
- Helen E. Roy
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
- Riccardo Scalera
- IUCN Species Survival Commission Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG)
- Stefan Schindler
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- Kateřina Štajerová
- Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences
- Barbara Tokarska-Guzik
- Department of Botany and Nature Protection, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Silesia
- Mark van Kleunen
- Department of Ecology, University of Konstanz
- Kevin Walker
- Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)
- Patrick Weigelt
- Department of Biodiversity, Macroecology and Biogeography, Georg-August-University Göttingen
- Takehiko Yamanaka
- Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO (NIAES)
- Franz Essl
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14435
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 8,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Alien species of animals and plants can invade new regions of the earth. This study performs a global analysis of temporal dynamics and spatial patterns of alien species introductions over the past 200 years, and reports no saturation in the rate at which these invasion are increasing.
