All over the world, MIRENers are resurveying their roads for our 2021-2022, 15 years after the very first surveys were done. This is a...

A MIREN milestone paper just got published, open access in Ecology and Evolution: the MIREN road survey protocol! The paper:...

--- Upcoming study --- Invasive species are a major driver of change in global biodiversity and ecosystems. However, knowledge on the...

New regional MIREN paper, with MIREN members Jonas Lembrechts and Ivan Nijs! It was at a lunchtime seminar of our research group that...

Dear MIREN friends and colleagues, Albeit being late, we would like to wish you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2022. The last few...

The MIREN global network of elevational transects has clearly shown declines in species richness of non-native plants with increasing...

In 2016, MIREN published the results from a much-needed experiment. We had sown seeds in two extreme environments: the north of...

Kashmir Himalaya. A region famous for its breathtaking heights and steep mountain regions. From 1994 to 2013, the Indian government here...

The Crozet archipelago. A few tiny specks in a vast ocean, ‘on the road’ from South Africa to Antarctica. A tough climate, inhabitants...

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To Drive the South African Contribution to an EU Horizon 2020 BiodivERsA Project Mountain Invasion Research Network (MIREN) –...

We are very pleased to announce that next year MIREN will be heavily involved in two large international projects that have been...

Daniel Chichinsky, Kara Hettinger, and Tim Seipel Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences - Montana State University...

Wonder what has been going on in the MIREN network and all its different components across the world? Find out in our autumn newsletter...

New regional MIREN-paper out in New Phytologist, by PhD candidate Jan Clavel from the University of Antwerp, Belgium! We disentangle the...

Last chance to participate in MIRENs survey on the perception of invasive species in mountains, as we are closing the survey on September...

“DArwin's Naturalization Conundrum rEvisited (DANCE) – Darwin meets omics” The project is about analyzing the role of plant species...

The global pandemic is still restricting lots of MIRENs fieldwork, but that makes us extra happy with those plans that still can be...

The sweetbriar rose isn't as sweet as its name suggests. In the Argentinean Andes, it creates impenetrable thickets of torns and...

Recently, our German MIREN team published a new paper called 'the contrasting patterns of intra-specific trait variability in native and...