Invasive alien species come from most taxonomic groups, and invasion biology is searching for robust cross-taxon generalizations and principles. An analysis of 2,670 papers dealing with 892 invasive species showed that all major groups of invaders are well studied, but that most information on the mechanisms of invasion has emerged from work on a limited number of the most harmful invaders. A s...

Significant progress has been made in understanding biological invasions recently, and one of the key findings is that the determinants of naturalization and invasion success vary from group to group. Here, we explore this variation for one of the largest plant families in the world, the Araceae. This group provides an excellent opportunity for identifying determinants of invasiveness in herbac...

Alien and rare plants tend to adapt contrasting biotic abiotic conditions. However, adaptability assessments of alien using biological habitat characteristics in stressful disturbed environments are limited. We collected demonstrated the assessed adaptive capacity China analytic hierarchy process. Biological characteristics, such as dispersal strategy, sexual asexual reproduction modes, life fo...

Interdisciplinarity is needed to gain knowledge of the ecology of invasive species and invaded ecosystems, and of the human dimensions of biological invasions. We combine a quantitative literature review with a qualitative historical narrative to document the progress of interdisciplinarity in invasion science since 1950. Our review shows that 92.4% of interdisciplinary publications (out of 919...

• Climate and land use change were used to model habitat suitability of Rhododendron. Land climate interaction may the invasiveness South-western north-eastern Wales experience R. ponticum invasion by 2030. The study demonstrates significance using policy-driven projections. Global drivers such as changes are known interact in their effects on biodiversity. impact these global biodiversity is i...

The expression of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) was analyzed in immunohistochemical preparations from adenoid cystic carcinoma. The goal was to evaluate whether NCAM expression could be used as a biological marker for the perineural invasion of adenoid cystic carcinoma in the head and neck. The presence of perineural invasion and NCAM expression was evaluated in samples from 49 patients....

Biological invasions are increasingly frequent and have dramatic ecological and economic consequences. A key to coping with invasive species is our ability to predict their rates of spread. Traditional models of biological invasions assume that the environment is temporally constant. We examine the consequences for invasion speed of periodic and stochastic £uctuations in population growth rates...