Mark van Kleunen教授多年来从事植物入侵成因及后果的相关研究，作为项目负责人承担了大量的科研项目，在入侵生态学领域具有国际领先地位，在《Nature》、《PNAS》、《Ecology Letters》、《Ecology》等国际顶级期刊上发表100余篇文章，高被引文章4篇，单篇文章引用高达514次，其原创性的研究成果深入阐明入侵植物的全球扩散机制并有利于成功实施入侵防治，具有重要的社会效益、生态效益及潜在的经济效益。 中国是生物入侵的重灾区，尤其是中国东部沿海，经济发展伴随着生物安全性的急剧下降，因此急需生物安全领域的专家及技术。
代表性论文如下：
1. van Kleunen M, Xu X, Yang Q, Maurel N, Zhang Z, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Moser D, Lenzner B & Fristoe TS (2020) Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success. Nature Communications 11:3201. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16982-3)(1区，top)
2. Yuan YG, van Kleunen M & Li JM * (2021) A parasite indirectly affects nutrient distribution by common mycorrhizal networks between host and neighboring plants. Ecology, e03339. (DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3339) （1区，top）
3. Pouteau R, Brunel C, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Meyer C, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Winter M & van Kleunen M (2021) Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions early view. (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13438)(1区，top)
4. Pouteau R, Biurrun I, Brunel C, Chytrý M, Dawson W, Essl R, Fristoe TS, Haveman R, Hobohm C, Jansen F, Kreft H, Lenoir J, Lenzner B, Meyer C, moeslund JE, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Svenning J-C, Thuiller W, Weigelt P, Wohlgemuth T, Yang Q & van Kleunen M (2021) Potential alien ranges of European plants will shrink in the future, but less so for already naturalized than for not yet naturalized species. Diversity and Distributions 27,11:2063-2076. (DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13378)(1区，top)
5. Fristoe TS, Chytry M, Dawson W, Essl F, Heleno R, Kreft H, Maurel N, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Vargas P, Yang Q, Attorre F, Bergmeier E, Bernhardt-Römermann M, Biurrun I, Boch S, Bonari G, Botta-Dukát Z, Bruun HH, Byun C, Carni A, Carranza ML, Catford JA, Cerabolini BEL, Chacón-Madrigal E, Ciccarelli D, Cušterevska R, de Ronde I, Dengler J, Golub V, Haveman R, Hough-Snee N, Jandt U, Jansen F, Kuzemko A, Küzmic F, Lenoir J, Macanovic A, Marcenò C, Martin AR, Michaletz ST, Mori AS, Niinemets Ü, Peterka T, Pielech R, Rašomavicius V, Rüsina S, Dias AS, Sibíková M, Silc U, Stanisci A, Jansen S, Svenning JC, Swacha G, van der Plas F, Vassilev K & van Kleunen M (2021) Dimensions of invasiveness: links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe's alien and native floras. PNAS 118 (22): e2021173118. (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2021173118).
高端论文：
Mark van Kleunen教授在国际顶级学术期刊《Nature Communications》在线发表了有关全球经济植物在原生地以外其它地区的归化情况的研究论文“Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success”。Mark van Kleunen教授为论文的第一作者和通讯作者，伟德国际victor1946为论文的第一署名单位。《Nature Communications》是国际生物学领域最有影响力的权威学术期刊之一，最新影响因子为12.118。
高被引论文：
Mark van Kleunen教授发表伟德国际victor1946为第一署名单位的高被引论文2篇。单篇文章引用高达514次，其原创性的研究成果深入阐明入侵植物的全球扩散机制并有利于成功实施入侵防治，具有重要的社会效益、生态效益及潜在的经济效益。论文如下：
1.van Kleunen M, Essl F, Perg J, Brundu G, Carboni M, Dullinger S, Early R, González-Moreno P, Groom QJ, Hulme PE, Kueffer C, Kühn I, Máguas C, Maurel N, Novoa A, Parepa M, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Tanner R, Touza J, Verbrugge L, Weber E, Dawson W, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Winter M, Klonner G, Talluto MV & Dehnen-Schmutz K (2018) The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions. Biological Reviews 93:1421-1437.(2). (2022. 01高被引)
2.van Kleunen M et al (2019) The global naturalized alien flora (GlOLNAF) database. Ecology 100(1): e02542. (2022. 01高被引)
