From West to East and back again: Trans-Siberian Railway as a continental pathway of plant invasions

Abstract

The rapid increase of invasions worldwide is associated with the intensification and expansion of trade and transport, and access to new source species pools. The presented project contributes to understanding the role of human-mediated pathways (based on the model system of Trans-Siberian railway, Транссибирская магистраль, Transsibirskaya magistral, TSR) in translocating plant species, elucidating the biogeographic patterns of their spread, and predicting the invasion risk of alien species along TSR in the future