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 80 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
Overcoming disciplinary boundaries and expanding the use of biological and social sciences analyses
May 10-13, 2021
GUBIC 2021 meeting recordings
Day 1, Feb. 23, 2021
GUBIC updates
- Luke Potgieter: GUBIC Data Repository Overview
- Scott MacIvor: An invasibility framework for urban green spaces
Catalyst talks
- Luke Potgieter: Prioritization and thresholds for managing biological invasions in cities
- Tyler Bateman: Invasive species policy over time
- Rachel Rigden: Intraspecific trait variation predicts persistence of native species to invasion
- Basil V. Iannone III: Stormwater ponds: unintended invasive plant habitat in urbanizing landscapes
- Deyi Yin: Invasional meltdown in a long-term successional plant community
- Daijiang Li: Understanding effects of urbanization on plant phenology
- Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz: Plant Alert: A citizen science project to identify potentially invasive garden plants
Workshop
- Marc Cadotte: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Day 2, Feb. 24, 2021
GUBIC updates
- Ben Baiser: A network analysis of urban non-native species assemblages across global cities
- Rafael Zenni: Urban biological invasions across scales. GUBIC progress in Brazil
Catalyst talks
- Vasily Yakimov: Phylogenetic diversity of urban floras in the Central Urals
- Jonathan Bell: Who will let me in? Property access for urban invasions
- Ana Carolina Lacerda: Negative and positive effects of urbanization on native and exotic plants
- Marc Cadotte: On linking mechanism to invasive species impact
- Peter Kotanen: Investigating limits to the spread of non-native plants at high latitudes
- Alessandro Ossola: The Global Urban Tree Inventory (GUTI): Data and Applications for Urban Invasion Science
Workshop
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