About the Authors

Tim M. Blackburn

tim.blackburn@ioz.ac.uk

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Distinguished Scientist Fellowship Program, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Environment Institute, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Franz Essl

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Vegetation and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Evans

Affiliation Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Philip E. Hulme

Affiliation The Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand

Jonathan M. Jeschke

Affiliation Technische Universität München, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Restoration Ecology, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany

Ingolf Kühn

Affiliations UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Sabrina Kumschick

Affiliation Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Zuzana Marková

Affiliations Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Czech Republic, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Agata Mrugała

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Wolfgang Nentwig

Affiliation Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Jan Pergl

Affiliation Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Czech Republic

Petr Pyšek

Affiliations Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Průhonice, Czech Republic, Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

Wolfgang Rabitsch

Affiliation Environment Agency Austria, Department of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation, Vienna, Austria

Anthony Ricciardi

Affiliation Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

David M. Richardson

Affiliation Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Agnieszka Sendek

Affiliation UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Community Ecology, Halle, Germany

Montserrat Vilà

Affiliation Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain

John R. U. Wilson

Affiliations Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Claremont, South Africa

Marten Winter

Affiliation German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Piero Genovesi

Affiliation ISPRA, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research and Chair IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy

Sven Bacher

Affiliation Department of Biology, Unit Ecology & Evolution, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.