Do alien plants escape from natural enemies of congeneric residents? Yes but not from all

Herbivory by an introduced Asian weevil negatively affects population growth of an invasive Brazilian shrub in Florida

(2012) Kerry Bohl Stricker et al.   ECOLOGY

Tree insects and pathogens display opposite tendencies to attack native vs. non-native pines

(2012) María J. Lombardero et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Testing assumptions of the enemy release hypothesis: generalist versus specialist enemies of the grass Brachypodium sylvaticum

(2012) Aud H. Halbritter et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Herbivore Preference for Native vs. Exotic Plants: Generalist Herbivores from Multiple Continents Prefer Exotic Plants That Are Evolutionarily Naïve

(2011) Wendy E. Morrison et al.   PLoS One

Island Invasion by a Threatened Tree Species: Evidence for Natural Enemy Release of Mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) on Dominica, Lesser Antilles

(2011) Julian M. Norghauer et al.   PLoS One

Relationships among leaf damage, natural enemy release, and abundance in exotic and native prairie plants

(2010) Eric C. Vasquez et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Controls on pathogen species richness in plants’ introduced and native ranges: roles of residence time, range size and host traits

(2010) Charles E. Mitchell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Enemy release does not increase performance of Cirsium arvense in New Zealand

(2010) Michael G. Cripps et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Associations of leaf miners and leaf gallers with island plants of different residency histories

(2009) Shinji Sugiura   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Release from foliar and floral fungal pathogen species does not explain the geographic spread of naturalized North American plants in Europe

(2009) Mark van Kleunen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A cross-continental test of the Enemy Release Hypothesis: leaf herbivory on Acer platanoides (L.) is three times lower in North America than in its native Europe

(2008) Jonathan M. Adams et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Herbivory is related to taxonomic isolation, but not to invasiveness of tropical alien plants

(2008) Wayne Dawson et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology

(2008) Petr Pyšek et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION