ArticleGlobal ecology and biogeography : a journal of macroecology2020
A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network.
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- Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Pooled it
- Meta-analysis identifies native priority as a mechanism that supports the restoration of invasion-resistant plant communities.Communications biology · 2023Pooled it
- Meta-analytic evidence that allelopathy may increase the success and impact of invasive grasses.PeerJ · 2023Pooled it
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- Differentiation of the Foliar Microbiomes From Co-Occurring Grass Species Reflects Their Recency of Invasion.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Plants That Evolved Under High Phylogenetic Diversity Have Higher Invasion Success, Particularly in Undisturbed Communities.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- The spread of non-native species.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- The crucial and unique role of extreme tropical cyclones in promoting freshwater invasions in China.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Phenological Development of Waxy-Leaved Mustard (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Evidence for environmental filtering and limiting similarity depends on spatial scale and dissimilarity metrics.Ecology · 2025Article
- Can competitive effects and responses of alien and native species predict invasion outcomes?Fundamental research · 2025Article
- Global drivers of the conservation-invasion paradox.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Characteristics of Floral Volatiles and Their Effects on Attracting Pollinating Insects in ThreeBiology · 2025Article
- Emerging Invasive Weeds in Iran: Occurrence, Ecological Impacts, and Sustainable Management.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and soil substrate on invasive plant Alternanthera philoxeroides.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Widespread freshwater non-native fishes exhibit synchronized population dynamics with functionally similar natives.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A conceptual classification scheme of invasion science.Bioscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsSince its emergence in the mid-20th century, invasion biology has matured into a productive research field addressing questions of fundamental and applied importance. Not only has the number of empirical studies increased through time, but also has the number of competing, overlapping and, in some cases, contradictory hypotheses about biological invasions. To make these contradictions and redundancies explicit, and to gain insight into the field's current theoretical structure, we developed and applied a Delphi approach to create a consensus network of 39 existing invasion hypotheses.
resultsThe resulting network was analysed with a link-clustering algorithm that revealed five SIGNIFICANCE: The network visually synthesizes how invasion biology's predominant hypotheses are conceptually related to each other, and thus, reveals an emergent structure - a
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