Plant Invasions

Part I: Background

1: Plant invasions: the role of biotic interactions – An overview

2: The role of biotic interactions in invasion ecology: theories and hypotheses

Part II: Positive and negative interactions in the soil

3: Soil biota and non-native plant invasions

Part III: Mutualistic interactions that promote plant invasions

4: Pollination interactions promoting plant invasions-

5: Seed dispersal interactions promoting plant invasions

6: Ungulates as dispersal vectors of non-native plants

7: The role of plant-plant facilitation in non-native plant invasions

8: How direct and indirect non-native interactions can promote plant invasions, lead to invasional meltdown, and inform management decisions

Part IV: Antagonistic interactions that hinder plant invasions

9: Biotic resistance to plant invasions

10: EICA 2.0: A general model of enemy release and defence in plant and animal invasions

11: The role of pathogens in plant invasions

12: Direct and indirect effects of herbivores influencing plant invasions

Part V: Consequences of plant invasions for biotic interactions among native species

13: Impacts of non-native plants on plant-pollinator interactions

14: The effect of non-native plant invasions on seed dispersal of native plants

15: Allelopathic disruptions of biotic interactions due to non-native plants

16: Competition between native and non-native plants

17: Indirect biotic interactions between non-native plants and native plants and animals

Part VI: Novel techniques and experimental approaches in the study of plant invasions

18: How a network approach has advanced the field of plant invasion ecology

19: Molecular ecology of plant-microbial interactions during invasions: progress and challenges

Part VII: Biotic interactions and the management of ecosystems invaded by non-native plants

20: How can progress in the understanding of antagonistic interactions be applied to improve biological control of plant invasions?

21: Restoration of pollination interactions in communities invaded by non-native plants

22: Restoration of seed dispersal interactions in communities invaded by non-native plants

Anna Traveset

Anna Traveset is a Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council based at the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies in Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Her research focuses on species interactions, mostly on island ecosystems, and how these are influenced by different drivers of global change. She has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals and as book chapters, and has edited several special issues, one in Journal of Biogeography (2012) and the other in AoB PLANTS (2015). She belongs to the editorial board of five scientific journals. In 2017, she was awarded the Prize King Jaume I in the category of "Environmental Protection."

David M. Richardson

David M. Richardson was Director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology in South Africa between 2011 and 2022. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research focuses on biological invasions, mainly plant invasions. Dave is author or co-author of over 500 journal papers and book chapters and several books, including Invasion Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Invading Ecological Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He has edited or co-edited nine books, including Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Biological Invasions in South Africa (Springer, 2022) and Plant Invasions: The Role of Biotic Interactions (CABI, 2022). He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Diversity and Distributions between 1998 and 2015. Dave was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize for 2006 by the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2012 received the John F.W. Herschel Medal, the senior medal of the Royal Society of South Africa, and in 2019 was recipient of the African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence (Continental). Most of his work on this book was done while he was on sabbatical leave with support from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic.