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Ecology and Evolution
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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
95
Citations
48496
World Ranking
347
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Montserrat Vilà is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research spans multiple interconnected fields within environmental and biological sciences, focusing largely on patterns, impacts, and management of invasive species alongside broader ecological dynamics.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these domains, Vilà has contributed to several subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecological Modeling; Ecology; and Insect Science.

Their work frequently addresses topics including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Biological Control of Invasive Species
  • Insect and Pesticide Research

Montserrat Vilà has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • NeoBiota
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Biological Invasions
  • Ecosistemas
  • BioScience

Their recent papers, reflecting a focus on invasive species biology, climate-driven ecological impacts, and conservation policy, include:

  • "Scientists' warning on invasive alien species", 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network", 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Adjusting the lens of invasion biology to focus on the impacts of climate-driven range shifts", 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change", 2020, Environmental Reviews
  • "A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland", 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology

Collaboration is a notable feature of their scientific career. Frequent co-authors who have worked with Montserrat Vilà include:

  • Belinda Gallardo
  • Sven Bacher
  • Jonathan M. Jeschke
  • Franz Essl
  • Pablo González-Moreno

Best Publications

  • Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward

    Daniel Simberloff;Jean Louis Martin;Piero Genovesi;Virginie Maris

  • Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems

    Montserrat Vilà;José L Espinar;Martin Hejda;Philip E Hulme

  • Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order

    Richard J. Hobbs;Salvatore Arico;James Aronson;Jill S. Baron

  • Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions

    Jonathan M Levine;Montserrat Vilà;Carla M D'Antonio;Jeffrey S Dukes

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Philip E. Hulme;Dan Simberloff;Sven Bacher

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • A global assessment of invasive plant impacts on resident species, communities and ecosystems: the interaction of impact measures, invading species' traits and environment

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík;Philip E. Hulme;Jan Pergl;Jan Pergl

  • How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment

    Montserrat Vila;Corina Basnou;Petr Pysek;Melanie Josefsson

  • Global ecological impacts of invasive species in aquatic ecosystems

    Belinda Gallardo;Miguel Clavero;Marta I. Sánchez;Montserrat Vilà

  • Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

    P. E. Hulme;S. Bacher;M. Kenis;S. Klotz

  • A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts

    Tim M. Blackburn;Franz Essl;Thomas Evans;Philip E. Hulme

  • When do herbivores affect plant invasion? Evidence for the natural enemies and biotic resistance hypotheses

    John L. Maron;Montserrat Vilà

  • RAPID EVOLUTION OF AN INVASIVE PLANT

    John L. Maron;Montserrat Vilà;Riccardo Bommarco;Sarah Elmendorf

  • Are invasive plant species better competitors than native plant species? - evidence from pair-wise experiments

    Montserrat Vilà;Jacob Weiner

  • Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

    Petr Pysek;Vojtech Jarosík;Philip E Hulme;Ingolf Kühn

  • Habitat invasions by alien plants: a quantitative comparison among Mediterranean, subcontinental and oceanic regions of Europe

    Milan Chytrý;Lindsay C. Maskell;Joan Pino;Petr Pyšek

  • Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

    Franz Essl;Stefan Dullinger;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Philip E. Hulme

  • Defining the Impact of Non-Native Species

    Jonathan M Jeschke;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Jaimie T A Dick

  • Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

    Oliver Schweiger;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Thomas Hickler

  • Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

    Juan P. González-Varo;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Simon G. Potts

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Philip E. Hulme
Philip E. Hulme Lincoln University
Wolfgang Nentwig
Wolfgang Nentwig University of Bern
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Sven Bacher
Sven Bacher University of Fribourg
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Joan Pino
Joan Pino Autonomous University of Barcelona
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Vojtěch Jarošík
Vojtěch Jarošík Charles University

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