Ecologists and biogeographers routinely categorize species as" native" with a confidence
that for a surprising number of taxa belies the quality of the supporting data. In classical views …

Invasions frequently continue long after dispersal corridors have been well established. Six
interrelated processes (changes in donor regions, new donor regions, changes in recipient …

Biological invasions are a major global environmental and economic problem. Analysis of
the San Francisco Bay and Delta ecosystem revealed a large number of exotic species that …

Human activities, primarily the global movement of organisms associated with ocean‐going
vessels and with commercial fishery products, have lead to the redistribution of a vast …

The 2011 East Japan earthquake generated a massive tsunami that launched an extraordinary
transoceanic biological rafting event with no known historical precedent. We document …

There has been a dramatic growth in research on biological invasions over the past 20 years,
but a mature understanding of the field has been hampered because invasion biologists …

Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the
rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien …

The passive dispersal by human activity of coastal organisms across the Pacific Ocean has
been an active and dynamic process since at least the nineteenth century, and has led to the …

TA review of the introduced marine and estuarine (brackish water) bivalves and prosobranch
and pulmonate gastropods of the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific coasts of North America reveals …

Non-indigenous species (NIS) are increasingly conspicuous in marine and estuarine
habitats throughout the world, as the number, variety, and effects of these species continue to …