Université de Fribourg

How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment

Vilà, Montserrat ; Basnou, Corina ; Pyšek, Petr ; Josefsson, Melanie ; Genovesi, Piero ; Gollasch, Stephan ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Olenin, Sergej ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, David ; Hulme, Philip E ; partners, DAISIE

In: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2009///doi: 10.1890/080083

Recent comprehensive data provided through the DAISIE project (www.europe-aliens.org) have facilitated the development of the first pan-European assessment of the impacts of alien plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates – in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments – on ecosystem services. There are 1094 species with documented ecological impacts and 1347 with economic impacts. The two...