GUBIC

Global Urban Biological Invasion Consortium

about

GUBIC is a multidisciplinary global analysis of how urbanization shapes and is shaped by the movement of species around the world. We aim to uncover how environment, city structure, biogeography, history, trade, economics and governance all shape the biodiversity of cites and the environmental benefits to people. GUBIC consists of more than 100 collaborators from more than 45 cities in 21 countries. GUBIC provides a platform to share data and ideas, and to get researchers together for collaboration and discussion.

GUBIC projects & collaborators

Proposing new project

Please use this form to propose new collaborative projects using GUBIC data or the network for data/sample collection. The GUBIC core team will respond with approval or connect project leader to other team if ideas are closely overlapping. All GUBIC projects must agree to follow the collaboration guidelines.

Key products:

Richardson, D. M., Trotta, L. B., Aronson, M. F. J., Baiser, B., Cadotte, M. W., Carboni, M., Celesti-Grapow, L., Knapp, S., Kühn, I., de Matos, A. C. L., Lososová, Z., Li, D., Montaño-Centellas, F. A., Potgieter, L. J., Zenni, R. D., and Pysek, P. (2026). Here, there and everywhere: widespread non-native plants in the world’s urban ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography, in press.
Li, D., Potgieter, L., Aronson, M., Axmanová, I., Baiser, B., Carboni, M., … & Cadotte, M. (2024). GUBIC: the global urban biological invasions compendium for plants, 6, e70020. DATASET
Potgieter, L. J., Li, D., Baiser, B., Kühn, I., Aronson, M. F., Carboni, M., … & Cadotte, M. W. (2024). Cities shape the diversity and spread of nonnative species. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 55: 157-180.
Potgieter, L. J., Shrestha, N., & Cadotte, M. W. (2022). Prioritizing sites for terrestrial invasive alien plant management in urban ecosystems. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(3), e12160.
Potgieter, L. J., Shrestha, N., & Cadotte, M. W. (2022). Prioritizing terrestrial invasive alien plant species for management in urban ecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59(3), 872-883.
Potgieter, L. J., Aronson, M. F. J., Brandt, A. J., Cook, C. N., Gaertner, M., Mandrak, N. E., … & Cadotte, M. W. (2022). Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in urban ecosystems. Urban Ecosystems, 25(1), 253-271.
Tretyakova, A. S., Yakimov, B. N., Kondratkov, P. V., Grudanov, N. Y., & Cadotte, M. W. (2021). Phylogenetic diversity of urban floras in the Central Urals. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 663244.
Potgieter, L. J., & Cadotte, M. W. (2020). The application of selected invasion frameworks to urban ecosystems. NeoBiota, 62, 365-386.
Cadotte, M. W., Yasui, S. L. E., Livingstone, S., & MacIvor, J. S. (2017). Are urban systems beneficial, detrimental, or indifferent for biological invasion?. Biological invasions, 19, 3489-3503.
Gaertner, M., Wilson, J. R., Cadotte, M. W., MacIvor, J. S., Zenni, R. D., & Richardson, D. M. (2017). Non-native species in urban environments: patterns, processes, impacts and challenges. Biological Invasions, 19, 3461-3469.