How on Earth did that get there? Natural and human vectors of aquatic macrophyte global distribution

The origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater

(2022) Cristian Román‐Palacios et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Quantifying the ecological impacts of alien aquatic macrophytes: A global meta‐analysis of effects on fish, macroinvertebrate and macrophyte assemblages

(2022) Samuel J. L. Tasker et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Towards global dominance of invasive alien plants in freshwater ecosystems: the dawn of the Exocene?

(2021) Rossano Bolpagni   HYDROBIOLOGIA

From introduction to nuisance growth: a review of traits of alien aquatic plants which contribute to their invasiveness

(2021) Andreas Hussner et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Ecological niches of an introduced species Typha laxmannii and native Typha species in Austria

(2021) Leonid Rasran et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Ploidy state of aquatic macrophytes: Global distribution and drivers

(2021) Tatiana Lobato-de Magalhães et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Diversity and origins of Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush) invasion in North America

(2021) John F. Gaskin et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Changes in wetland habitat use by waterbirds wintering in Czechia are related to diet and distribution changes

(2021) Zuzana Musilová et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Twenty year contrast of non-native parrotfeather distribution and abundance in an unregulated river

(2021) Lauren M. Kuehne et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

On the move: New insights on the ecology and management of native and alien macrophytes

(2020) Deborah Hofstra et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Impacts of artificial barriers on the connectivity and dispersal of vascular macrophytes in rivers: A critical review

(2020) Peter E. Jones et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Current climate overrides historical effects on species richness and range size of freshwater plants in Europe and North America

(2020) Janne Alahuhta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species identity and diversity effects on invasion resistance of tropical freshwater plant communities

(2020) Antonella Petruzzella et al.   Scientific Reports

The alien invasive yellow flag (Iris pseudacorus L.) in Argentinian wetlands: assessing geographical distribution through different data sources

(2020) Paula Gervazoni et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Latitudinal variation in global range‐size of aquatic macrophyte species shows evidence for a Rapoport effect

(2020) Kevin Murphy et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Impacts on freshwater macrophytes produced by small invertebrate herbivores: Afrotropical and Neotropical wetlands compared

(2020) M. Celeste Franceschini et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Phylogenomics of the aquatic plant genus Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae): Implications for historical biogeography

(2020) Zhi-Zhong Li et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Are invertebrate herbivores of freshwater macrophytes scarce in tropical wetlands?

(2020) Celeste Franceschini et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Go with the flow: Fragment retention patterns shape the vegetative dispersal of aquatic plants in lowland streams

(2020) Patrick Heidbüchel et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Seed dispersal by neotropical waterfowl depends on bird species and seasonality

(2020) Giliandro G. Silva et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Macroecology of macrophytes in the freshwater realm: Patterns, mechanisms and implications

(2020) Janne Alahuhta et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Is Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis a Tertiary relict in Europe?

(2019) Levente Laczkó et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Reciprocal interactions between the native Mentha aquatica and the invasive Ludwigia hexapetala in an outdoor experiment

(2019) Gabrielle Thiébaut et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Association Between the Success of an Invasive Macrophyte, Environmental Variables and Abundance of a Competing Native Macrophyte

(2019) Mikaela Marques Pulzatto et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Factors driving seed dispersal in a Neotropical river-floodplain system

(2019) Florencia Facelli Fernández et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

Typha (Cattail) Invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, Regional Problems, Impacts, Ecosystem Services, and Management

(2019) Sheel Bansal et al.   WETLANDS

World distribution, diversity and endemism of aquatic macrophytes

(2019) Kevin Murphy et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

A native species does not prevent the colonization success of an introduced submerged macrophyte, even at low propagule pressure

(2019) Nayara Louback-Franco et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Local and regional drivers of turnover and nestedness components of species and functional beta diversity in lake macrophyte communities in China

(2019) Hui Fu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Genetic variability of Eurasian Nuphar species unravels possible routes in which freshwater plants could fill their wide areas

(2018) Polina A. Volkova et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Riding invasion waves: Spatial and temporal patterns of the invasive Lemna minuta from its arrival to its spread across Europe

(2018) Simona Ceschin et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Evidence of aquatic plant seed dispersal by eastern painted turtles ( Chrysemys picta picta ) in Massachusetts, USA

(2018) Donald J. Padgett et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Features of Distribution of Hydrilla verticillata (L. fil.) Royle (Hydrocharitaceae) in North Eurasia

(2018) Andrey Efremov et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Endozoochory of aquatic ferns and angiosperms by mallards in Central Europe

(2018) Ádám Lovas-Kiss et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ichthyochory in a temperate river system by common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

(2018) Jay A. VonBank et al.   JOURNAL OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY

Extreme hydrological events destabilize aquatic ecosystems and open doors for alien species

(2018) Elena V. Anufriieva et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

European pondweed in East Siberia: evidence of Potamogeton rutilus (Potamogetonaceae) in Yakutia (Asian Russia) with evaluation of current distribution and conservation status

(2018) ALEXANDER A. BOBROV et al.   Phytotaxa

Herbivory can mitigate, but not counteract, the positive effects of warming on the establishment of the invasive macrophyte Hydrilla verticillata

(2018) Clementina Calvo et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A mechanistic assessment of the relationship between gut morphology and endozoochorous seed dispersal by waterfowl

(2018) Erik Kleyheeg et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Alien Express: The threat of aquarium e-commerce introducing invasive aquatic plants in Brazil

(2018) Cleto Kaveski Peres et al.   Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Up, up and away: bird-mediated ectozoochorous dispersal between aquatic environments

(2017) Neil E. Coughlan et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Plants in aquatic ecosystems: current trends and future directions

(2017) Matthew T. O’Hare et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Average niche breadths of species in lake macrophyte communities respond to ecological gradients variably in four regions on two continents

(2017) Janne Alahuhta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Typha latifolia L. (Typhaceae), nuevo registro para la flora de Chile

(2017) Jonathan Urrutia et al.   GAYANA BOTANICA

Ledermanniella yiben sp. nov. (Podostemaceae), Critically Endangered at the proposed Yiben Reservoir, Sierra Leone

(2017) Martin Cheek et al.   KEW BULLETIN

Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective

(2016) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Spatial and environmental drivers of macrophyte diversity and community composition in temperate and tropical calcareous rivers

(2016) Julissa Tapia Grimaldo et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

“Step by step”: high frequency short-distance epizoochorous dispersal of aquatic macrophytes

(2016) Neil E. Coughlan et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Seed traits and bird species influence the dispersal parameters of wetland plants

(2016) Chevonne Reynolds et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Seed dispersal by waterbirds in southern Africa: comparing the roles of ectozoochory and endozoochory

(2016) Chevonne Reynolds et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Going against the flow: a case for upstream dispersal and detection of uncommon dispersal events

(2016) E. R. Jasper Wubs et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Hygraula nitens, the only native aquatic caterpillar in New Zealand, prefers feeding on an alien submerged plant

(2016) Petra Redekop et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

A primer on potential impacts, management priorities, and future directions for Elodea spp. in high latitude systems: learning from the Alaskan experience

(2016) Michael P. Carey et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Seed dispersal by dabbling ducks: an overlooked dispersal pathway for a broad spectrum of plant species

(2016) Merel B. Soons et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Taxonomic and Geographic Bias in Conservation Biology Research: A Systematic Review of Wildfowl Demography Studies

(2016) Beth E. I. Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Alien Limnobium laevigatum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Heine (Hydrocharitaceae) becoming prevalent in Zimbabwe and Zambia

(2016) Geoffrey Howard et al.   BioInvasions Records

Environmental drivers of aquatic macrophyte communities in southern tropical African rivers: Zambia as a case study

(2015) Michael P. Kennedy et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

E-commerce trade in invasive plants

(2015) Franziska Humair et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The role of waterbirds in the dispersal of aquatic alien and invasive species

(2015) Chevonne Reynolds et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Effects of seed traits on the potential for seed dispersal by fish with contrasting modes of feeding

(2015) Ger Boedeltje et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Internal transport of alien and native plants by geese and ducks: an experimental study

(2015) Alberto García-Álvarez et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Insect herbivory on native and exotic aquatic plants: phosphorus and nitrogen drive insect growth and nutrient release

(2015) Bart M. C. Grutters et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Through thick and thin: Cryptic sympatric speciation in the submersed genus Najas (Hydrocharitaceae)

(2015) Donald H. Les et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A phylogeny and biogeographic analysis for the Cape-Pondweed family Aponogetonaceae (Alismatales)

(2015) Ling-Yun Chen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Invasive aquatic plants in the aquarium and ornamental pond industries: a risk assessment for southern Ontario (Canada)

(2015) S Azan et al.   WEED RESEARCH

Distribution of Iris pseudacorus (Linnaeus, 1753) in South Africa

(2015) Thulisile Jaca et al.   BioInvasions Records

Investigation of Darwin’s naturalization hypothesis in invaded macrophyte communities

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

How do islands become green?

(2014) Ruben Heleno et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Ecological mechanisms of invasion success in aquatic macrophytes

(2014) Jonathan P. Fleming et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos)-mediated dispersal of Lemnaceae: a contributing factor in the spread of invasiveLemna minuta?

(2014) N. E. Coughlan et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Allometric Scaling of Long-Distance Seed Dispersal by Migratory Birds

(2013) Duarte S. Viana et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Environmental factors explaining the distribution and diversity of vascular aquatic macrophytes in a highly heterogeneous Mediterranean region

(2013) Eglantine Chappuis et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Do aquatic plant assemblages in the Paraná River change along the river's length?

(2013) Juan José Neiff et al.   AQUATIC BOTANY

Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern

(2013) Rachel A. Slatyer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Habitat area and climate stability determine geographical variation in plant species range sizes

(2013) Naia Morueta-Holme et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Rapid climate driven shifts in wintering distributions of three common waterbird species

(2013) Aleksi Lehikoinen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessing the responses of aquatic macrophytes to the application of a lanthanum modified bentonite clay, at Loch Flemington, Scotland, UK

(2013) Iain D. M. Gunn et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Viability of Aquatic Plant Fragments following Desiccation

(2013) Matthew A. Barnes et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Migratory strategies of waterbirds shape the continental-scale dispersal of aquatic organisms

(2012) Duarte S. Viana et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Wind and Water Dispersal of Wetland Plants Across Fragmented Landscapes

(2012) Hester Soomers et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A Review of the Biological Control Programmes onEichhornia crassipes(C.Mart.) Solms (Pontederiaceae),Salvinia molestaD.S.Mitch. (Salviniaceae),Pistia stratiotesL. (Araceae),Myriophyllum aquaticum(Vell.) Verdc. (Haloragaceae) andAzolla filiculoidesLam. (Azollaceae) in South Africa

(2011) J.A. Coetzee et al.   AFRICAN ENTOMOLOGY

The relative role of environmental, spatial, and land-use patterns in explaining aquatic macrophyte community composition

(2011) Alison Mikulyuk et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

(2011) B. Sandel et al.   SCIENCE

Pet stores, aquarists and the internet trade as modes of introduction and spread of invasive macrophytes in South Africa

(2011) GD Martin et al.   WATER SA

Internal dispersal of seeds by waterfowl: effect of seed size on gut passage time and germination patterns

(2010) Jordi Figuerola et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Environmental predictors of the occurrence of exotic Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle and native Egeria najas Planch. in a sub-tropical river floodplain: the Upper River Paraná, Brazil

(2009) W. T. Z. Sousa et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Photoperiodism in waterfowl: phasing of breeding cycles and zoogeography

(2009) R. K. Murton† et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Potential spread of the invasive plant Hydrilla verticillata in South Africa based on anthropogenic spread and climate suitability

(2008) Julie A. Coetzee et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

A working guide to boosted regression trees

(2008) J. Elith et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

(2008) Ran Nathan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION