About the Authors

Aníbal Pauchard

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

pauchard@udec.cl

Affiliations Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Santiago, Chile

Laura A. Meyerson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Rhode Island, Natural Resources Science, Kingston, Rhode Island, United States of America

Sven Bacher

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Tim M. Blackburn

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, United Kingdom

Giuseppe Brundu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Sassari, Department of Agriculture, Sassari, Italy

Marc W. Cadotte

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Toronto, Scarborough, Toronto, Canada

Franck Courchamp

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecologie, Systématique, et Evolution, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France

Franz Essl

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Piero Genovesi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Sylvia Haider

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Halle, Germany, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Nick D. Holmes

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Island Conservation, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Philip E. Hulme

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand

Jonathan M. Jeschke

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julie L. Lockwood

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Ana Novoa

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Martin A. Nuñez

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Grupo de Ecologıa de Invasiones, INIBIOMA, CONICET Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina

Duane A. Peltzer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

Petr Pyšek

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

David M. Richardson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Daniel Simberloff

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Kevin Smith

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Union for Conservation of Nature, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Brian W. van Wilgen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Montserrat Vilà

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain

John R. U. Wilson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Marten Winter

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

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

Rafael D. Zenni

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Lavras, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.