Franz Essl

Research interests

Publications

• A function-based typology for Earth’s ecosystems

  Nature · 2022 · 10.1038/s41586-022-05318-4

• Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe

  NeoBiota · 2021 · 10.3897/neobiota.67.58196

• Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species

  The Science of The Total Environment · 2021 · 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145238

• Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12627

• Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15333

• Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert‐based assessment

  Global Change Biology · 2020 · 10.1111/gcb.15199

• The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (Glo NAF ) database

  Ecology · 2018 · 10.1002/ecy.2542

• Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719429115

• The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018 · 10.1111/brv.12402

• Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · 10.1038/s41559-017-0186

• Naturalized alien flora of the world

  Preslia · 2017 · 10.23855/preslia.2017.203

• Socio‐economic impact classification of alien taxa ( SEICAT )

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2017 · 10.1111/2041-210x.12844

• Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2017 · 10.1111/gcb.13976

• No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide

  Nature Communications · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14435

• Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · 10.1111/gcb.13021

• Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14910

• The dispersal of alien species redefines biogeography in the Anthropocene

  Science · 2015 · 10.1126/science.aaa8913

• A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts

  PLoS Biology · 2014 · 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001850

• Defining the Impact of Non‐Native Species

  Conservation Biology · 2014 · 10.1111/cobi.12299

• Ecological Impacts of Alien Species: Quantification, Scope, Caveats, and Recommendations

  BioScience · 2014 · 10.1093/biosci/biu193

• Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

  PLoS ONE · 2013 · 10.1371/journal.pone.0062111

• TEASIng apart alien species risk assessments: a framework for best practices

  Ecology Letters · 2012 · 10.1111/ele.12003

• Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.1011728108

• Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high‐altitude endemic species under climate change

  Global Change Biology · 2010 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02266.x

• Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 10.1073/pnas.1002314107

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