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Acknowledgements

We thank Chris Field, Nora Chiariello, and Jim Ehleringer for sharing their personal photos with us to include in this tribute. We also thank Liza Lester at the Ecological Society of America for her assistance and Yiannis Katsamakis from the Stanford Woods Institute for his help.

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  1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Daniel Simberloff

  2. Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, 02881, USA

    Laura A. Meyerson

  3. Institute of Botany, Department of Invasion Ecology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic

    Petr Pyšek

  4. Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Pyšek

  5. Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, 7602, South Africa

    David M. Richardson

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Simberloff, D., Meyerson, L.A., Pyšek, P. et al. Honoring Harold A. Mooney: Citizen of the world and catalyst for invasion science. Biol Invasions 19, 2219–2224 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1498-x

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