The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next?

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Resident-Invader Phylogenetic Relatedness, Not Resident Phylogenetic Diversity, Controls Community Invasibility

(2015) Jiaqi Tan et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Deconstructing Darwin's Naturalization Conundrum in the San Juan Islands using community phylogenetics and functional traits

(2015) Hannah E. Marx et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Darwin's hypotheses to explain colonization trends: evidence from aquasi-natural experiment and a new conceptual model

(2015) Felipe Skóra et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Phylogenetic relatedness and leaf functional traits, not introduced status, influence community assembly

(2015) Nathan P. Lemoine et al.   ECOLOGY

A new perspective on trait differences between native and invasive exotic plants: reply

(2015) A. Joshua Leffler et al.   ECOLOGY

A new perspective on trait differences between native and invasive exotic plants: comment

(2015) Wayne Dawson et al.   ECOLOGY

What it takes to invade grassland ecosystems: traits, introduction history and filtering processes

(2015) Marta Carboni et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A new dynamic null model for phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Alex L. Pigot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The effects of phylogenetic relatedness on invasion success and impact: deconstructing Darwin's naturalisation conundrum

(2015) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A reciprocal test of Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in two mediterranean-climate regions

(2015) Daniel S. Park et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Random processes and phylogenetic loss caused by plant invasions

(2015) Oriol Lapiedra et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Alien plants invade more phylogenetically clustered community types and cause even stronger clustering

(2015) Zdeňka Lososová et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Revisiting Darwin's naturalization conundrum: explaining invasion success of non-native trees and shrubs in southern Africa

(2015) Simeon Bezeng Bezeng et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Why close relatives make bad neighbours: phylogenetic conservatism in niche preferences and dispersal disproves Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the thistle tribe

(2015) Daniel S. Park et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating dark diversity and species pools: an empirical assessment of two methods

(2015) Rob J. Lewis et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Introduced and invasive cactus species: a global review

(2015) Ana Novoa et al.   AoB Plants

How Do Alien Plants Fit in the Space-Phylogeny Matrix?

(2015) Şerban Procheş et al.   PLoS One

Environmental filtering of agroforestry systems reduces the risk of biological invasion

(2014) Nina Celli Ramos et al.   AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS

Comparison of Natural and Nonnative Two-Species Communities of Anolis Lizards

(2014) Steven Poe   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Mutualistic Interactions and Biological Invasions

(2014) Anna Traveset et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Impact of alien species on dune systems: a multifaceted approach

(2014) Matteo Marcantonio et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Investigation of Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis in invaded macrophyte communities

(2014) Jonathan P. Fleming et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Strangers in a strange land: do life history traits differ for alien and native colonisers of novel environments?

(2014) Helen F. Nahrung et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Contrasting the effects of environment, dispersal and biotic interactions to explain the distribution of invasive plants in alpine communities

(2014) Laure Gallien et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics?

(2014) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

A new perspective on trait differences between native and invasive exotic plants

(2014) A. Joshua Leffler et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of trophic similarity on community composition

(2014) Hélène Morlon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Congener diversity, topographic heterogeneity and human-assisted dispersal predict spread rates of alien herpetofauna at a global scale

(2014) Xuan Liu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes

(2014) Oscar Godoy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Negative, neutral, and positive interactions among nonnative plants: patterns, processes, and management implications

(2014) Sara E. Kuebbing et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Functional relationships beyond species richness patterns: trait matching in plant-bird mutualisms across scales

(2014) D. Matthias Dehling et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

The imbalance of nature: revisiting a Darwinian framework for invasion biology

(2014) Jason D. Fridley et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Contrasting effects of phylogenetic relatedness on plant invader success in experimental grassland communities

(2014) Shao-peng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Evidence for shifts to faster growth strategies in the new ranges of invasive alien plants

(2014) Michelle R. Leishman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

How exotic plants integrate into pollination networks

(2014) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns of phylogenetic diversity are linked to invasion impacts, not invasion resistance, in a native grassland

(2014) Jonathan A. Bennett et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Rapid genetic adaptation precedes the spread of an exotic plant species

(2014) Katrien Vandepitte et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Functional equivalence, competitive hierarchy and facilitation determine species coexistence in highly invaded grasslands

(2014) Nicolas Gross et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Impacts of alien plant invasion on native plant communities are mediated by functional identity of resident species, not resource availability

(2014) Ben Gooden et al.   OIKOS

Evaluating Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis in Experimental Plant Assemblages: Phylogenetic Relationships Do Not Determine Colonization Success

(2014) Sergio A. Castro et al.   PLoS One

Fish species introductions provide novel insights into the patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in freshwaters

(2014) A. L. Strecker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mutualism between co-introduced species facilitates invasion and alters plant community structure

(2014) K. M. Prior et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mistaking geography for biology: inferring processes from species distributions

(2014) Dan. L. Warren et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trees, branches and (square) roots: why evolutionary relatedness is not linearly related to functional distance

(2014) Andrew D. Letten et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a Joint Species Distribution Model (JSDM)

(2014) Laura J. Pollock et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Identifying the signal of environmental filtering and competition in invasion patterns - a contest of approaches from community ecology

(2014) Laure Gallien et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Assessing vegetation change using vegetation-plot databases: a risky business

(2013) Milan Chytrý et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The phylogenetic properties of native- and exotic-dominated plant communities

(2013) Gastón O. Carvallo et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Contrasting effects of plant invasion on pollination of two native species with similar morphologies

(2013) Shi-Guo Sun et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Validity of Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis relates to the stages of invasion

(2013) S. Pellock et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Going beyond taxonomic diversity: deconstructing biodiversity patterns reveals the true cost of iceplant invasion

(2013) Tommaso Jucker et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Do invasive species perform better in their new ranges?

(2013) John D. Parker et al.   ECOLOGY

Functional and phylogenetic similarity of alien plants to co-occurring natives

(2013) Alejandro Ordonez   ECOLOGY

Biotic resistance in marine environments

(2013) David L. Kimbro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of co-occurring non-native invasive plant species on old-field succession

(2013) Sara E. Kuebbing et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Can plant-microbe-insect interactions enhance or inhibit the spread of invasive species?

(2013) Alison E. Bennett   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evidence of deterministic assembly according to flowering time in an old-field plant community

(2013) Sneha K. Dante et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Predictors of regional establishment success and spread of introduced non-indigenous vertebrates

(2013) Craig R. Allen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

(2013) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Can floral traits predict an invasive plant's impact on native plant-pollinator communities?

(2013) Michelle R. Gibson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Plant functional group identity and diversity determine biotic resistance to invasion by an exotic grass

(2013) Chaeho Byun et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Experimental evidence for indirect facilitation among invasive plants

(2013) S. Luke Flory et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Indirect effects and facilitation among native and non-native species promote invasion success along an environmental stress gradient

(2013) Phoebe L. Zarnetske et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional group dominance and identity effects influence the magnitude of grassland invasion

(2013) Grisel Longo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species-rich assemblage

(2013) Carlos Martorell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A family of null models to distinguish between environmental filtering and biotic interactions in functional diversity patterns

(2013) L. Chalmandrier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

(2013) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Different Traits Determine Introduction, Naturalization and Invasion Success In Woody Plants: Proteaceae as a Test Case

(2013) Desika Moodley et al.   PLoS One

Revisiting Darwin's conundrum reveals a twist on the relationship between phylogenetic distance and invasibility

(2013) E. I. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A test of Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the thistle tribe shows that close relatives make bad neighbors

(2013) D. S. Park et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Determinants of plant establishment success in a multispecies introduction experiment with native and alien species

(2013) A. Kempel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Invasive Harlequin Ladybird Carries Biological Weapons Against Native Competitors

(2013) A. Vilcinskas et al.   SCIENCE

Environmental conditions and community evenness determine the outcome of biological invasion

(2013) Karen De Roy et al.   Nature Communications

Establishment of introduced reptiles increases with the presence and richness of native congeners

(2012) Rodrigo B. Ferreira et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Facilitation of the non-native annual plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (Aizoaceae) by the endemic cactus Eulychnia acida (Cactaceae) in the Atacama Desert

(2012) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Environmental stress alters native-nonnative relationships at the community scale

(2012) Betsy Von Holle   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Darwin's naturalization hypothesis: scale matters in coastal plant communities

(2012) Marta Carboni et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Naturalization of introduced plants: ecological drivers of biogeographical patterns

(2012) David M. Richardson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reciprocally beneficial interactions between introduced plants and ants are induced by the presence of a third introduced species

(2012) J. H. Ness et al.   OIKOS

Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta-analysis of experimental studies

(2012) Jodi N. Price et al.   OIKOS

Facilitation and Competition among Invasive Plants: A Field Experiment with Alligatorweed and Water Hyacinth

(2012) Emily J. Wundrow et al.   PLoS One

Inferring local ecological processes amid species pool influences

(2012) Jean-Philippe Lessard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetically Poor Plant Communities Receive More Alien Species, Which More Easily Coexist with Natives

(2011) Pille Gerhold et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Effect of a native tree on seedling establishment of two exotic invasive species in a semiarid ecosystem

(2011) Pablo I. Becerra et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Phylogenetic isolation increases plant success despite increasing susceptibility to generalist herbivores

(2011) John D. Parker et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Patterns of bird invasion are consistent with environmental filtering

(2011) Brian S. Maitner et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Invasional meltdown: Invader–invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

(2011) Peter T Green et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis in the Azores

(2011) Hanno Schaefer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null-models the magic wand?

(2011) Francesco de Bello   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment

(2011) Elsa E. Cleland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patterns of plant community assembly in invaded and non-invaded communities along a natural environmental gradient

(2011) Riccardo Santoro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Phylogenetic structure predicts capitular damage to Asteraceae better than origin or phylogenetic distance to natives

(2011) Steven B. Hill et al.   OECOLOGIA

A phylogenetically controlled analysis of the roles of reproductive traits in plant invasions

(2011) Jean H. Burns et al.   OECOLOGIA

Dark diversity: shedding light on absent species

(2011) Meelis Pärtel et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

An Experimental Test of Darwin’s Naturalization Hypothesis

(2010) Lin Jiang et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Native communities determine the identity of exotic invaders even at scales at which communities are unsaturated

(2010) Kendi F. Davies et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Phylogenetic patterns differ for native and exotic plant communities across a richness gradient in Northern California

(2010) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Is phylogenetic relatedness to native species important for the establishment of reptiles introduced to California and Florida?

(2010) Nicola J. Van Wilgen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Resolving Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: a quest for evidence

(2010) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities

(2010) Jana S. Petermann et al.   ECOLOGY

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules

(2010) Maud A. Mouchet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The maximum relative growth rate of common UK plant species is positively associated with their global invasiveness

(2010) Wayne Dawson et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Functional composition controls invasion success in a California serpentine grassland

(2010) David U. Hooper et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Co-invasion by Pinus and its mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) Ian A. Dickie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Ghost of Competition Present

(2009) T. E. Miller et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions

(2009) Daniel Simberloff   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Mycorrhizal Symbioses and Plant Invasions

(2009) Anne Pringle et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Land use history alters the relationship between native and exotic plants: the rich don’t always get richer

(2009) John D. Parker et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Patterns of native and exotic species richness in the urban flora of Brussels: rejecting the ‘rich get richer’ model

(2009) Carlo Ricotta et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Phylogenetic relatedness and plant invader success across two spatial scales

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Plant invasions and the niche

(2009) Andrew S. MacDougall et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora

(2009) M. Winter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DIVERSITY–INVASIBILITY ACROSS AN EXPERIMENTAL DISTURBANCE GRADIENT IN APPALACHIAN FORESTS

(2008) R. Travis Belote et al.   ECOLOGY

TESTING THE SPECIES TRAITS–ENVIRONMENT RELATIONSHIPS: THE FOURTH-CORNER PROBLEM REVISITED

(2008) Stéphane Dray et al.   ECOLOGY

NEW MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY INDICES FOR A MULTIFACETED FRAMEWORK IN FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

(2008) Sébastien Villéger et al.   ECOLOGY

Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: dissecting taxonomic patterns of species invasions

(2008) Jeffrey M. Diez et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species invasions and extinction: The future of native biodiversity on islands

(2008) D. F. Sax et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functionally Similar Species Confer Greater Resistance to Invasion: Implications for Grassland Restoration

(2008) Stephen L. Young et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Invasive Mutualists Erode Native Pollination Webs

(2008) Marcelo A Aizen et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY