Poster presented at the World Biodiversity Forum at Davos, June 2022. Abstract: Biological invasions are on the rise, and their global impacts on ecosystems, economies and human health are a major challenge. Invasion science is critical to mitigate invader impacts, yet due to the strong increase of data and information in this area, it has become difficult to acquire and maintain an overview of the field. Additionally, relevant information is often hidden behind paywalls. As a result, existing

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... vidence is often not found, knowledge is too rarely transferred to practice, and research is sometimes conducted in pursuit of dead ends. With an ongoing project, we aim to address these challenges by developing an interactive atlas of invasion science that can be extended to other disciplines in the future. This online portal will be an evolving knowledge resource providing FAIR information for researchers. Users will be able to get an overview of the major research questions and hypotheses in invasion science, will be able to "zoom in" and find out about refined versions of these research questions and hypotheses, and discover relevant studies connected to them. The portal will apply cutting-edge visualization techniques, artificial intelligence and novel methods for knowledge synthesis. In the presentation, we will introduce our approach and discuss ideas for a complementary initiative in the field of restoration ecology.