Jonathan Belmaker

May 18, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Yehezkel Buba |Moshe Kiflawi |Melodie McGeoch |Jonathan Belmaker

Reducing the rate of alien species introductions is a major conservation aim. However, accurately quantifying the rate at which species are introduced into new regions remains a challenge due to the confounding effect of observation efforts on discovery records. Despite the recognition of this issue, most analyses are still based on raw discovery records, leading to biased inferences.

Oct 10, 2023 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Melodie McGeoch |Yehezkel Buba |Jonathan Belmaker |Eduardo Arlé

1 WHY A PERSISTENT FOCUS ON INVASION TRENDS? The documented numbers of alien species in new locations have continued to increase over recent decades (Seebens et al., 2017).