Macroecology of Plant Invasions. A story of data rabbit holes & flexible project planning & policy relevance & An introduction to iDiv, an exciting work place & science funder for biodiversity research

Marten Winter

Biological invasions are among the top five threats to biodiversity and occurring in all habitats, all regions globally. There is no sign of decreasing invasions. Here I give a short overview and discuss some exciting global plant invasion patterns and their drivers. I’ll give some insights into pathways of research ideas in invasion science and how they ended in data issues, related career choices and how generally this is relevant to everyone of us.

At the end I will introduce briefly iDiv, the research centre I work for, which hosts the synthesis centre I’m leading since 12 years.