Groupe de spécialistes des espèces envahissantes de la CSE de l'UICN

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.