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When Charles Elton published his ground-breaking book The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants in 1958, he raised the alarm that “A hundred years of faster and bigger transport has kept up and intensified this bombardment of every country by foreign species, brought accidentally or on purpose, by vessel and by air and overland from places that used to be isolated.”

Although Elton’s book essentially marked the beginning of the modern field of invasion biology, it took decades for the fledgling discipline to be taken seriously. Even today, there is a movement within academia labelled “invasive species denialism,” arguing that invasion biologists and practitioners tend to exaggerate the harms caused by these species. Meanwhile, regardless of their impacts, these invasions continue at a staggering rate and are truly worldwide in scope as documented in the chapters of this present volume, highlighting global plant invasions.