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Naturalization of European plants on other continents: The role of donor habitats (2017)
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Kalusová, V., Chytrý, M., van Kleunen, M., Mucina, L., Dawson, W., Essl, F., …Pyšek, P. (2017). Naturalization of European plants on other continents: The role of donor habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(52), 13756-13761. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1705487114

The success of European plant species as aliens worldwide is thought to reflect their association with human-disturbed environments. However, an explicit test including all human-made, seminatural and natural habitat types of Europe, and their contri... Read More about Naturalization of European plants on other continents: The role of donor habitats.

Naturalization of ornamental plant species in public green spaces and private gardens (2017)
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Mayer, K., Haeuser, E., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., …van Kleunen, M. (2017). Naturalization of ornamental plant species in public green spaces and private gardens. Biological Invasions, 19(12), 3613-3627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1594-y

Ornamental horticulture is the most important pathway for alien plant introductions worldwide, and consequently, invasive spread of introduced plants often begins in urban areas. Although most introduced ornamental garden-plant species are locally no... Read More about Naturalization of ornamental plant species in public green spaces and private gardens.

Naturalized alien flora of the world (2017)
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Pyšek, P., Pergl, J., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., …Kleunen, M. V. (2017). Naturalized alien flora of the world. Preslia, 89(3), 203-274. https://doi.org/10.23855/preslia.2017.203

Using the recently built Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database, containing data on the distribution of naturalized alien plants in 483 mainland and 361 island regions of the world, we describe patterns in diversity and geographic distribut... Read More about Naturalized alien flora of the world.

Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups (2017)
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Dawson, W., Moser, D., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., …Essl, F. (2017). Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, Article 0186. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0186

Human-mediated transport beyond biogeographic barriers has led to the introduction and establishment of alien species in new regions worldwide. However, we lack a global picture of established alien species richness for multiple taxonomic groups. Her... Read More about Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups.

Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe? (2017)
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Klonner, G., Dullinger, I., Wessely, J., Bossdorf, O., Carboni, M., Dawson, W., …Dullinger, S. (2017). Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe?. Diversity and Distributions, 23(8), 934-943. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12578

Aim: Interspecific hybridization can promote invasiveness of alien species. In many regions of the world, public and domestic gardens contain a huge pool of non-native plants. Climate change may relax constraints on their naturalization and hence fac... Read More about Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe?.

A small number of low-abundance bacteria dominate plant species-specific responses during rhizosphere colonisation (2017)
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Dawson, W., Hör, J., van Kleunen, M., & Pester, M. (2017). A small number of low-abundance bacteria dominate plant species-specific responses during rhizosphere colonisation. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8, Article 975. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00975

Plant growth can be affected by soil bacteria. In turn, plants are known to influence soil bacteria through rhizodeposits and changes in abiotic conditions. We aimed to quantify the phylotype richness and relative abundance of rhizosphere bacteria th... Read More about A small number of low-abundance bacteria dominate plant species-specific responses during rhizosphere colonisation.

The effects of climate warming and disturbance on the colonization potential of ornamental alien plant species (2017)
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Haeuser, E., Dawson, W., & van Kleunen, M. (2017). The effects of climate warming and disturbance on the colonization potential of ornamental alien plant species. Journal of Ecology, 105(6), 1698-1708. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12798

1.A large number of alien plant species have been introduced as ornamental garden plants to Europe, but relatively few have become invasive. Low climatic suitability may be limiting the current invasion potential of many alien ornamental species. How... Read More about The effects of climate warming and disturbance on the colonization potential of ornamental alien plant species.

No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide (2017)
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Seebens, H., Blackburn, T., Dyer, E., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P., Jeschke, J., …Essl, F. (2017). No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide. Nature Communications, 8, Article 14435. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14435

Although research on human-mediated exchanges of species has substantially intensified during the last centuries, we know surprisingly little about temporal dynamics of alien species accumulations across regions and taxa. Using a novel database of 45... Read More about No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.