Challenging the view that invasive non-native plants are not a significant threat to the floristic diversity of Great Britain

Affiliations

• ¹ Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand; [email protected].
• ² Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, 4070386 Concepción, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, 7800024 Santiago, Chile;
• ³ Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, CZ-128 44 Prague, Czech Republic; Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa;
• ⁴ Department of Integrative Ecology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 41092 Seville, Spain;
• ⁵ Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic;
• ⁶ Department of Genetics, Evolution, & Environment, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom;
• ⁷ Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and.
• ⁸ Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic;
• ⁹ Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, D-78464 Konstanz, Germany;
• ¹⁰ School of Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom;
• ¹¹ Division of Conservation, Vegetation, and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, 1030 Vienna, Austria;
• ¹² Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, and Chair International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Invasive Species Specialist Group, 00144 Rome, Italy;
• ¹³ Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster LA1 4AP, United Kingdom;
• ¹⁴ Natural Resource Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881;
• ¹⁵ Laboratorio Ecotono, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, San Carlos de Bariloche, CP 8400, Argentina;
• ¹⁶ Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Biological Records Centre, Wallingford OX10 8BB, United Kingdom;
• ¹⁷ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa;
• ¹⁸ Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, CZ-128 44 Prague, Czech Republic;
• ¹⁹ Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523;
• ²⁰ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.