Publications

2024​

Tu, W., Du, Y., Stuart, Y. E., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Wu, Q., Guo, B.*, & Liu, X.* 2024. Biological invasion is eroding the unique assembly of island herpetofauna worldwide. Biological conservation, 300,  110853.  DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110853
Li, Y. X., Wang, Y.*, & Liu, X.* 2024. Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds undergoing rapid increase of biological invasions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291, rspb.2024.0844.  DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0844
Hong, Y., Yuan, Z.*, & Liu, X.* 2024. Global drivers of the conservation–invasion paradox. Conservation Biology, e14290. DOI:10.1111/cobi.14290.
Zhang, Q., Wang Y.*, & Liu, X.* 2024. Risk of introduction and establishment of alien vertebrate species in transboundary neighboring areas. Nature Communications, 15(1), 870. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45025-4
Yan, Z.#, Hu, S.#, Du, Y.#, Liang, J., Chen, S., Han, L., Hong, Y., Lin, Z., Tu, W., Li, Y., Wang, Y., Yu, J., Qi, T., Li, W., Zhao, P., Xi, Y., Zhang, Q., Cui, R., Gu, S., & Liu, X.* 2024. Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China. Current Biology, 34, R1–R3. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.007
Du, Y.#, Wang, X.#, Ashraf, S.#, Tu, W., Xi, Y., Cui, R., Chen, S., Yu, J., Han, L., Gu, S., Qu, Y., & Liu, X.* 2024. Climate match is key to predict range expansion of the world’s worst invasive terrestrial vertebrates. Global Change Biology, 30, e17137. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17137

Du, Y.#, Xi, Y. #, Yang, Z. #, Gu, D. #, Zhang, Z. #, Tu, W., Zeng, Y., Cui, R., Yan, Z., Xin, Y., Jin, W., Zhang, Y., Yang, L., Guo, B., Ke, Z., Rohr, J. R., & Liu, X.* 2024. High risk of biological invasion from prayer animal release in China. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 0(0): e2647. DOI:10.1002/fee.2647

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2023

Gu, S., Qi, T., Rohr, J. R., & Liu, X.* (2023). Meta-analysis reveals less sensitivity of non-native animals than natives to extreme weather worldwide. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7(12), 2004-2027. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02235-1.

Xin, Y., Z. Yang, Y. Du, R. Cui, Y. Xi, and Liu, X.* 2023. Vulnerability of protected areas to future climate change, land use modification and biological invasions in China. Ecological Applications, e2831.

Han, L., Wang Y. *, Liu, X.* (2024) Comparisons between non-native species invasion and native species range expansion. Biodiversity Science, 32, 23396. DOI: 10.17520/biods.2023396.

Mi, C#., L. Ma#, M. Yang, X. Li, S. Meiri, U. Roll, O. Oskyrko, D. Pincheira-Donoso, L. P. Harvey, D. Jablonski, B. Safaei-Mahroo, H. Ghaffari, J. Smid, S. Jarvie, R. M. Kimani, R. Masroor, S. M. Kazemi, L. M. Nneji, A. M. T. Fokoua, G. C. Tasse Taboue, A. Bauer, C. Nogueira, D. Meirte, D. G. Chapple, I. Das, L. Grismer, L. J. Avila, M. A. Ribeiro Júnior, O. J. S. Tallowin, O. Torres-Carvajal, P. Wagner, S. R. Ron, Y. Wang, Y. Itescu, Z. T. Nagy, D. S. Wilcove, Liu, X.*, and W. Du*. 2023. Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change. Nature Communications, 14:1389.

Du, Y.#, Tu, W.#, Yang, L., Gu, D., Guo, B.*, and Liu, X.* (2023). Review on the impacts of invasive alien vertebrates on biodiversity. SCIENTIA SINICA Vitae (1674-7232). DOI: 10.1360/SSV-2022-0033. (in Chinese) 

Li, Y., Y.-B. Du, J.-T. Chen, M.-Q. Wang, S.-K. Guo, A. Schuldt, A. Luo, P.-F. Guo, X.-C. Mi, X.-J. Liu, K.-P. Ma, H. Bruelheide, D. Chesters, Liu, X., and C.-D. Zhu*. (2023). Tree dissimilarity determines multi-dimensional beta-diversity of herbivores and carnivores via bottom-up effects. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92:442-453.

Han, L.#, Zhang, Z.#, Tu, W., Zhang, Q., Hong, Y., Chen, S., Lin, Z., Gu, S., Du, Y., Wu, Z.*, and Liu, X.* (2023). Preferred prey reduce species realized niche shift and improve range expansion prediction. Science of The Total Environment, 859:160370.

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2022

Hong, Y.#, He, Y.#, Lin, Z.#, Du, Y., Chen, S., Han, L., Zhang, Q., Gu, S., Tu, W., Hu, S., Yuan, Z.* and Liu, X.* (2022). Complex origins indicate a potential bridgehead introduction of an emerging amphibian invader (Eleutherodactylus planirostris) in China. Neobiota, 77, 23-37. DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.77.83205.

Jin, L., Zhang, Z. X., Du, Y. B., Liao, W. B., Luan, X. F.* and Liu, X.* (2022). Quantification of Realized Climatic Niche Shift of Invasive Alien Species. Bio-101: e1010679. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.1010679. (in Chinese)

Zhang, L.#, Rohr, J.#, Cui, R.#, Xin, Y., Han, L., Yang, X., Gu, S., Du, Y., Liang, J., Wang, X., Wu, Z., Hao, Q., and Liu, X.*# (2022). Biological invasions facilitate zoonotic disease emergences. Nature communications, 13(1), 1762. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29378-2

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2021

Wang, D., and Liu, X.* (2021). Behavioral innovation promotes alien bird invasions. The Innovation 2:100167.

Wang, X., Yi, T., Li, W., Xu, C., Wang, S., Wang, Y., Li, Y., Liu, X.*. (2021) Anthropogenic habitat loss accelerates the range expansion of a global invader. Diversity and Distributions: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13359.

Wang, S., C. Xu, J. Zhang, S. Wang, X. Liu, X. Yang, and Y. Li. (2021) Phylogeny and Biogeography of Common Toad (Bufo bufo) in Xinjiang, China. Asian herpetological research. 12, 201–212

Fan, P.,  Fjeldså J., Liu, X., Dong, Y., Chang, Y., Qu, Y., Song, G.*, Lei, F*. (2021) An approach for estimating haplotype diversity from sequences with unequal lengths. Methods in Ecology and Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13643

Huang, C., Hu, L., Jiang, Y., Xu, Y., He, J., Lin, S., Liu, X*., and Jiang, H*. (2021) A 150-year avian bio-inventory on a global biodiversity hotspot island. Global Ecology and Conservation: e01578.

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2020

Liu, X*., Blackburn, T.M., Song, T., Wang, X., Huang, C. & Li, Y*. (2020) Animal invaders threaten protected areas worldwide. Nature Communications, 11, 2892. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16719-2

Liu, X*#., Rohr, J.R.#, Li, X., Deng, T., Li, W. & Li, Y.* (2020). Climate extremes, variability and trade shape biogeographical patterns of alien species. Current Zoology, DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoaa068

Zhang, Z., Capinha, C., Usio, N., Weterings, R., Liu, X., Li, Y. et al. (2020) Impacts of climate change on the global potential distribution of two notorious invasive crayfishes. Freshwater Biology, 65, 353-365.

Li, Y., Wang, S., Chen C., Zhang, J., Wang, S., Hou, X., Liu, X. et al. (2020). Latitudinal gradients in genetic diversity and natural selection at a highly adaptive gene in terrestrial mammals. Ecography, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05082