Species introductions are the onset of processes that may ultimately result in biological invasions (Blackburn et al., 2011), with the potential of generating serious environmental impacts (Bellard et al., 2016;Gallardo et al., 2016). The current rate of species introductions is unprecedented and still increasing in most areas and biomes (Seebens et al., 2017), but this phenomenon is far from recent. Humans have always transported useful plant and animal species from place to