{"paper_id":"1ed6549d-5aad-4186-b88d-ff5666ca0ee3","body_text":"Preprint\nARPHA Preprints\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479 (27 Jan 2026)\nhttps://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479 (27 Jan 2026)\nSubmitted to Biodiversity Data Journal\nOther versions:\n- Preprint InfoPreprint Info\n- CiteCite\n- MetricsMetrics\n- CommentComment\n- RelatedRelated\n- CitedCited\nARPHA Preprints\ndoi:\n10.3897/arphapreprints.e186479\nFirst posted\n27 Jan 2026\nAuthors\nQuentin Groom\n- Corresponding author\nMeise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium\nNatural Resource Specialist at Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom\nGibraltar Botanic Gardens, Gibraltar, Gibraltar\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom\nSWCA Environmental Consultants, Honolulu, United States of America\nMeise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium\nRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom\nInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria\nUK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum, Nottingham, United Kingdom\nConflict of interest\nThe authors have declared that no competing interests exist.\nSupporting agencies\nThe authors are grateful to the UK Defra Darwin Plus for funding fieldwork linked to this study (reference DarwinPlus151 Building knowledge of invasive species on Diego Garcia). QG acknowledges the Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen - FWO) for a Travel Grant for a short stay abroad (K212123N). SM acknowledges the financial support provided by the Leopold III Fund.\nThis is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.","source_license":"CC-BY-4.0","license_restricted":false}