Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprophyte fungus, widely spread in a variety of ecologicalniches and the most prevalent aspergilli responsible for human and animal invasiveaspergillosis. The first step to develop novel and efficient therapies is the identificationand understanding of the key tolerance and virulence factors of pathogens. The mainfocus of the present study is to perform the similarit...

     Roads have an important role in plants dispersal on different scales. Various plant species settle on roadsides, but some of them can enter the natural environments and threaten their biodiversity. Worldwide knowledge of roadside flora is necessary for local and global management of natural areas. Accordingly, the roadside flora of Northern Khorasan rangelands was studied along the 600 km ...

One of the possible consequences of biological invasions is the decrease of native species abundances or their replacement by non-native species. In Andean Patagonia, southern Argentina and Chile, many non-native animals have been introduced and are currently spreading. On Isla Victoria, Nahuel Huapi National Park, many non-native vertebrates were introduced ca. 1937. Records indicate that seve...

Anthropogenic modification of habitats may reduce the resources available for native species, leading to population declines and extinction. These same habitats often have the highest richness of non-native species. This pattern may be explained if recently human-modified habitats provide novel resources that are more accessible to non-native species than native species. Using non-native birds ...

11 Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC), Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE-981 07 Abisko, Sweden 12 Research Institute for Nature and Forest INBO, Department of Biodiversity and Natural Environment, 1070 Brussels, Belgium Corresponding author: Jonas J. Lembrechts, Centre of Excellence of Plant and Vegetation Ecology, University of Antwerp, 2610 Wilrijk, Belg...

The patterns of species distributions determine the functioning of ecosystems across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, from biogeochemical cycles and partitioning of the energy budget, to changes in biodiversity, habitat characteristics, and trophic structures. To predict functionality, it is important to know the composition of species and other habitat characteristics. Loss of nati...

The effects of non-native species invasions on community diversity and biotic homogenization have been described for various taxa in urban environments, but not for land snails. Here we relate the diversity of native and non-native land-snail urban faunas to urban habitat types and macroclimate, and analyse homogenization effects of non-native species across cities and within the main urban hab...