Monitoring and managing the global spread of invasive and alien species requires accurate spatiotemporal records of species presence and information about the biological characteristics of species of ...

Invasive alien species (Box 1) are one of the major drivers of ongoing global biodiversity loss, adversely impacting people and nature in all regions of Earth 1,2. Invasive alien plants, animals and ...

A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster plants” – around us show we should never ...