Predicting impacts of alien plant invasions on community diversity

Project Information

ALIENIMPACTS

Grant agreement ID: 101002987

DOI

10.3030/101002987

EC signature date 12 January 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 30 September 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 997,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 997,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (1)

Ecological scale and context dependence

Author(s): Brian, J., Catford, J.
Published in: Effective Ecology: Seeking Success in a Hard Science, 2023
Publisher: CRC Press

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands

Author(s): Pengfei Zhang, Eric W. Seabloom, Jasmine Foo, Andrew S. MacDougall, W. Stanley Harpole, Peter B. Adler, Yann Hautier, Nico Eisenhauer, Marie Spohn, Jonathan D. Bakker, Ylva Lekberg, Alyssa L. Young, C
Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 924-936, ISSN 2397-334X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02701-y

Release from aboveground enemies increases seedling survival in grasslands

Author(s): Joshua I. Brian, Harry E. R. Shepherd, María Á. Pérez‐Navarro, Jane A. Catford
Published in: Journal of Ecology, Issue 112, 2024, Page(s) 1473-1486, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.14318

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

Author(s): Jonathan D. Bakker, Jodi N. Price, Jeremiah A. Henning, Evan E. Batzer, Timothy J. Ohlert, Claire E. Wainwright, Peter B. Adler, Juan Alberti, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Lori A. Biederman, Elizabeth T. Borer, Lars A. Brudvig, Yvonne M. Buckley, Miguel N. Bugalho, Marc W. Cadotte, Maria C. Caldeira, Jane A. Catford, Qingqing Chen, Michael J. Crawley, Pedro Daleo, Chris R. Dickman, Ian Donohue, Mary E
Published in: Ecosphere, 2023, ISSN 2150-8925
Publisher: Wiley

A mechanistic framework of enemy release

Author(s): Joshua I. Brian, Jane A. Catford
Published in: Ecology Letters, 2023, ISSN 1461-023X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

Author(s): Marie Spohn, Sumanta Bagchi, Lori A. Biederman, Elizabeth T. Borer, Kari Anne Bråthen, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria C. Caldeira, Jane A. Catford, Scott L. Collins, Nico Eisenhauer, Nicole Hagenah, Sylvia Haider, Yann Hautier, Johannes M. H. Knops, Sally E. Koerner, Lauri Laanisto, Ylva Lekberg, Jason P. Martina, Holly Martinson, Rebecca L. McCulley, Pablo L. Peri, Petr Macek, Sally A. Power, Anita C.
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass

Author(s): Daleo, Pedro; Alberti, Juan; Chaneton, Enrique J; Iribarne, Oscar; Tognetti, Pedro M; Bakker, Jonathan D; Borer, Elizabeth T; Bruschetti, Martín; MacDougall, Andrew S; Pascual, Jesús; Sankaran, Mahesh; Seabloom, Eric W; Wang, Shaopeng; Bagchi, Sumanta; Brudvig, Lars A; Catford, Jane A; Dickman, Chris R; Dickson, Timothy L; Donohue, Ian; Eisenhauer, Nico; Gruner, Daniel S; Haider, Sylvia; Jentsch
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y

Higher plant colonisation and lower resident diversity in grasslands more recently abandoned from agriculture

Author(s): Jane A. Catford; Harry E. R. Shepherd; Phillip Tennant; David Tilman
Published in: Journal of Ecology, 2023, ISSN 0022-0477
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.14192

Addressing context dependence in ecology.

Author(s): Catford, J.A., Wilson, J.R.U., Pyšek, P., Hulme, P.E. & Duncan, R.P.
Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Issue Volume 37, Issue 2, February 2022, 2022, Page(s) 158-170, ISSN 0169-5347
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2021.09.007

Characteristics of Australia's alien flora vary with invasion stage

Author(s): Angela C. Bartlett; Tim M. Blackburn; Rod Randall; Jane A. Catford
Published in: Global Ecology & Biogeography, 2023, ISSN 1466-822X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/geb.13679

Similar drivers but distinct patterns of woody and herbaceous alien plant invasion

Author(s): David Gregory, Matt White, Jane A. Catford
Published in: NeoBiota, Issue 103, 2025, Page(s) 31-52, ISSN 1314-2488
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.103.164914

Building trait datasets: effect of methodological choice on a study of invasion

Author(s): Palma, E., Vesk, P.A. & Catford, J.A.
Published in: Oecologia, Issue 14321939, 2022, Page(s) 919–935, ISSN 1432-1939
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05230-8

G-IRAE: a Generalised approach for linking the total Impact of invasion to species' Range, Abundance and per-unit Effects

Author(s): Guillaume Latombe; Jane A. Catford; Franz Essl; Bernd Lenzner; David M. Richardson; John R. U. Wilson; Melodie A. McGeoch
Published in: BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS, Issue 13873547, 2022, Page(s) 3147-3167, ISSN 1387-3547
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1101/2021.10.18.464772

Biological invasions as burdens to primary economic sectors

Author(s): Anna J. Turbelin, Emma J. Hudgins, Jane A. Catford, Ross N. Cuthbert, Christophe Diagne, Melina Kourantidou, David Roiz, Franck Courchamp
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 87, 2024, Page(s) 102858, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102858

Interactive and unimodal relationships between plant biomass, abiotic factors, and plant diversity in global grasslands

Author(s): Marie Spohn, Sumanta Bagchi, Jonathan D. Bakker, Elizabeth T. Borer, Clinton Carbutt, Jane A. Catford, Christopher R. Dickman, Nico Eisenhauer, Anu Eskelinen, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Sally E. Ko
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07518-w

Evidence for environmental filtering and limiting similarity depends on spatial scale and dissimilarity metrics

Author(s): Maria A. Perez‐Navarro, Harry E. R. Shepherd, Joshua I. Brian, Adam T. Clark, Jane A. Catford
Published in: Ecology, Issue 106, 2025, ISSN 0012-9658
Publisher: Ecological Society of America
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.70244

Global costs of plant invasions must not be underestimated.

Author(s): Novoa, A., Moodley, D., Catford, J.A., Golivets, M., Bufford, J., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Pattison, Z. & Pyšek, P.
Published in: NeoBiota, Issue 69, 2021, Page(s) 75-78, ISSN 1619-0033
Publisher: Pensoft
DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.69.74121