Around the world in 500 years: Inter‐regional spread of alien species over recent centuries

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1Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiKF), Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK 3Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, UK 4BioProtection Research Centre, Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand 5Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany 6Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China 7USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA 8Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic 9A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 10Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic 11Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic 12Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria 13Community Ecology and Conservation, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic 14BioInvasions, Global Change, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 15Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa