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Jun 2, 2024 | 
nature.com | Helen Roy |Laura A. Meyerson |Sven Bacher |Philip E. Hulme |Tohru Ikeda |Melodie McGeoch | +65 more
AbstractAlthough invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and governance challenges of biological invasions.
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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.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | David Deane |Cang Hui |Melodie McGeoch
1 INTRODUCTION For equal total area, groups of small patches often contain more species than a few larger patches (Fahrig, 2020; Quinn & Harrison, 1988), prompting calls for greater focus on understanding the importance of patch size for biodiversity (Fahrig et al., 2021). However, species richness offers a narrow perspective on biodiversity, ignoring such characteristics as species identity and relative frequency (Hillebrand et al., 2018).
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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).
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
insidelogistics.ca | Andy Sheppard |Melodie McGeoch |Philip E. Hulme |Phill Cassey
Invasive alien species are driving biodiversity loss and extinctions in every country, all over the world. Responding to the challenge, the United Nations is today releasing the first global assessment of invasive alien species and their control. It comes from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which represents almost 140 member states.
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Sep 5, 2023 | 
australiangeographic.com.au | Andy Sheppard |Melodie McGeoch |Philip E. Hulme |Phill Cassey
It comes from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which represents almost 140 member states. Over four years, 86 expert authors from 49 countries gathered the latest scientific evidence and Indigenous and local knowledge on invasive alien species. The report draws on more than 13,000 references, including governmental reports. We were among the authors. Here are some of the key insights for Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
phys.org | Andy Sheppard |Melodie McGeoch |Philip E. Hulme |Phill Cassey
Invasive alien species are driving biodiversity loss and extinctions in every country, all over the world. Responding to the challenge, the United Nations is today releasing the first global assessment of invasive alien species and their control.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
theconversation.com | Andy Sheppard |Melodie McGeoch |Philip E. Hulme |Phill Cassey
Andy Sheppard, as a chief research scientist with CSIRO, receives funding from the Australian federal government. This included funding to participate in the IPBES Assessment process as a coordinating lead author from 2019-2023, where he co-led Chapter 5 and made contributions to three other chapters. He is therefore well connected to the IPBES process, corporate, assessment team and media team.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
nature.com | Andrew Gonzalez |Patricia Balvanera |Peter J. Bellingham |Andreas Bruder |Jeannine Cavender-Bares |Jonathan Chase | +45 more
The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a vision for living in harmony with nature that will have lasting benefits for humanity1.
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Aug 24, 2023 | nature.com | Andrew Gonzalez |Patricia Balvanera |Peter J. Bellingham |Andreas Bruder |Jeannine Cavender-Bares |Jonathan Chase | +45 more
The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM-GBF) provides a vision for living in harmony with nature that will have lasting benefits for humanity1.
