Deagrarianisation is a global phenomenon with high potential for both carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation. Work on this topic has focused on plant succession and associated plant diversity, but few studies have considered faunal communities, particularly in Africa. We used passive acoustic monitoring to record insectivorous bat communities within forest fragments and former fields under communal land tenure in t...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites (WHS) are areas of outstanding universal value and conservation importance. They are, however, threatened by a variety of global change drivers, including biological invasions. We assessed the current status of biological invasions and their management in 241 natural and mixed WHS globally by reviewing documents collated by UNESCO and IUCN. We found that reports on the status of biological invasions...

Our ability to predict invasions has been hindered by the seemingly idiosyncratic context-dependency of individual invasions. However, we argue that robust and useful generalisations in invasion science can be made by considering “invasion syndromes” which we define as “a combination of pathways, alien species traits, and characteristics of the recipient ecosystem which collectively result in predictable dynamics and impacts,...