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 fluctuations in population growth rate...

Several studies have shown that soil microorganisms play a key role in the success of plant invasion. Thus, ecologists have become increasingly interested in understanding the ecological effects of biological invasion on soil microbial communities given continuing increase in the effects of invasive plants on native ecosystems. This paper aims to provide a relatively complete depiction of the c...

Abstract Invasion biology examines species originated elsewhere and moved with the help of humans, those species’ impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, human well-being. In a globalized world, emergence spread many infectious pathogens are quintessential biological invasion events. Some macroscopic invasive themselves contribute to transmission agents. We review conceptual parallels diff...

We consider a continuum mechanical model for the migration of multiple cell populations through parts tissue separated by thin membranes. In this model, cells belonging to different may be characterised proliferative abilities and mobility, which vary from part tissue, as well invasion potentials within The original transmission problem, consisting set mass balance equations volume fraction eve...

Predictive studies are of paramount importance for biological invasions, one of the biggest threats for biodiversity. To help and better prioritize management strategies, species distribution models (SDMs) are often used to predict the potential invasive range of introduced species. Yet, SDMs have been regularly criticized, due to several strong limitations, such as violating the equilibrium as...

As part of the PADAPT project, authors compiled invasion biological database alien vascular flora Hungary, which contains nativeness, residence time, introduc- tion mode and status 878 or cryptogenic taxa. In absence adequate evidence, classification some species was only possible into uncertain, transitional cat- egories. The definitions most categories are compatible with several internationa...

Abstract By perturbing co-evolved interactions, biological invasions provide an opportunity to study the evolution of interactions between hosts and their parasites on ecological timescales. We studied interaction cane toad (Rhinella marina) its direct-lifecycle lungworm (Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala) that was brought from South America Australia with toads in 1935. Compared infective parasite...