Grupo de Especialistas en Especies Invasoras de la CSE de la UICN

Piero Genovesi, PhD, Head of wildlife service with the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Chair of the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group and member of the Steering Committee of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, collaborates with many international organizations, including the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the European Commission. International Science Advisor for the Center for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Author of books and scientific articles published in the most prestigious journals in the world, in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021 included in Highly Cited Researchers list by Web of Science.

Professor Helen Roy MBE Hon. FRES is an ecologist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Her research focuses on the effects of environmental change, particularly biological invasions, on biodiversity and ecosystems. Helen leads many collaborative national and international research projects on biological invasions with a focus on enhancing information flow to inform understanding of the impacts of invasive alien species. Helen also enjoys science communication and public engagement with research which led to her interest in citizen science; an approach that she has implemented in a number of contexts. She led the global assessment on invasive alien species for the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.

My research is focused mainly on the ecology of biological invasions and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions. My collaborators and I have been looking at larger intercontinental scales, specifically comparing plant invasions between North America, Chile and New Zealand with special focus on invasive pines. We have also been studying non-native plant invasions in protected areas in both south-central Chile and across mountain regions of the world. We have addressed how non-native plants disperse into natural areas from the more disturbed adjacent land-uses, and how roads act as major dispersal corridors. I am also interested in the conservation of natural areas and how biodiversity should be conserved across the whole anthropogenic gradient from protected areas to urban environments.My research is focused mainly on the ecology of biological invasions and their impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functions. My collaborators and I have been looking at larger intercontinental scales, specifically comparing plant invasions between North America, Chile and New Zealand with special focus on invasive pines. We have also been studying non-native plant invasions in protected areas in both south-central Chile and across mountain regions of the world. We have addressed how non-native plants disperse into natural areas from the more disturbed adjacent land-uses, and how roads act as major dispersal corridors. I am also interested in the conservation of natural areas and how biodiversity should be conserved across the whole anthropogenic gradient from protected areas to urban environments.