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Developing a framework of minimum standards for the risk assessment of alien species

Roy, Helen E. ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Scalera, Riccardo ; Stewart, Alan ; Gallardo, Belinda ; Genovesi, Piero ; Essl, Franz ; Adriaens, Tim ; Bacher, Sven ; Booy, Olaf ; Branquart, Etienne ; Brunel, Sarah ; Copp, Gordon Howard ; Dean, Hannah ; D?hondt, Bram ; Josefsson, Melanie ; Kenis, Marc ; Kettunen, Marianne ; Linnamagi, Merike ; Lucy, Frances ; Martinou, Angeliki ; Moore, Niall ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Nieto, Ana ; Pergl, Jan ; Peyton, Jodey ; Roques, Alain ; Schindler, Stefan ; Schönrogge, Karsten ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Stebbing, Paul D. ; Trichkova, Teodora ; Vanderhoeven, Sonia ; Valkenburg, Johan van ; Zenetos, Argyro

In: Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, vol. 55, no. 2, p. 526–538

Biological invasions are a threat to biodiversity, society and the economy. There is an urgent need to provide evidence-based assessments of the risks posed by invasive alien species (IAS) to prioritize action. Risk assessments underpin IAS policies in many ways: informing legislation; providing justification of restrictions in trade or consumer activities; prioritizing surveillance and rapid...

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Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways?

Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Essl, Franz ; Genovesi, Piero ; Harrower, Colin A. ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Jeschke, Jonathan M. ; Kenis, Marc ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Perglová, Irena ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, David B. ; Roy, Helen E. ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Winter, Marten ; Nentwig, Wolfgang

In: NeoBiota, 2017, vol. 32, p. 1–20

Prioritization of introduction pathways is seen as an important component of the management of biological invasions. We address whether established alien plants, mammals, freshwater fish and terrestrial invertebrates with known ecological impacts are associated with particular introduction pathways (release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided). We used the information from...

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Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

Essl, Franz ; Bacher, Sven ; Blackburn, Tim M. ; Booy, Olaf ; Brundu, Giuseppe ; Brunel, Sarah ; Cardoso, Ana-Cristina ; Eschen, René ; Gallardo, Belinda ; Galil, Bella ; García-Berthou, Emili ; Genovesi, Piero ; Groom, Quentin ; Harrower, Colin ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Katsanevakis, Stelios ; Kenis, Marc ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Kumschick, Sabrina ; Martinou, Angeliki F. ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; O'Flynn, Colette ; Pagad, Shyama ; Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Richardson, David M. ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, Helen E. ; Scalera, Riccardo ; Schindler, Stefan ; Seebens, Hanno ; Vanderhoeven, Sonia ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Wilson, John R. U.

In: BioScience, 2015, vol. 65, no. 8, p. 769–782

Substantial progress has been made in understanding how pathways underlie and mediate biological invasions. However, key features of their role in invasions remain poorly understood, available knowledge is widely scattered, and major frontiers in research and management are insufficiently characterized. We review the state of the art, highlight recent advances, identify pitfalls and constraints,...

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Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

Pyšek, Petr ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Wild, Jan ; Arianoutsou, Margarita ; Bacher, Sven ; Chiron, Francois ; Didžiulis, Viktoras ; Essl, Franz ; Genovesi, Piero ; Gherardi, Francesca ; Hejda, Martin ; Kark, Salit ; Lambdon, Philip W. ; Desprez-Loustau, Marie-Laure ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Pergl, Jan ; Poboljšaj, Katja ; Rabitsch, Wolfgang ; Roques, Alain ; Roy, David B. ; Shirley, Susan ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Winter, Marten

In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010, vol. 107, no. 27, p. 12157-12162

The accelerating rates of international trade, travel, and transport in the latter half of the twentieth century have led to the progressive mixing of biota from across the world and the number of species introduced to new regions continues to increase. The importance of biogeographic, climatic, economic, and demographic factors as drivers of this trend is increasingly being realized but as yet...

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Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven ; Chytrý, Milan ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Wild, Jan ; Celesti-Grapow, Laura ; Gassó, Núria ; Kenis, Marc ; Lambdon, Philip W. ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Pergl, Jan ; Roques, Alain ; Sádlo, Jiří ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Hulme, Philip E.

In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2010, p. -

Aim To provide the first comparative overview on the current numbers of alien species that invade representative European terrestrial and freshwater habitats for a range of taxonomic groups. Location Europe. Methods Numbers of naturalized alien species of plants, insects, herptiles, birds and mammals occurring in 10 habitats defined according to the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) were...

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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...

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Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

Walther, Gian-Reto ; Roques, Alain ; Hulme, Philip E. ; Sykes, Martin T. ; Pyšek, Petr ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Zobel, Martin ; Bacher, Sven ; Botta-Dukát, Zoltán ; Bugmann, Harald ; Czúcz, Bálint ; Dauber, Jens ; Hickler, Thomas ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Kenis, Marc ; Klotz, Stefan ; Minchin, Dan ; Moora, Mari ; Nentwig, Wolfgang ; Ott, Jürgen ; Panov, Vadim E. ; Reineking, Björn ; Robinet, Christelle ; Semenchenko, Vitaliy ; Solarz, Wojciech ; Thuiller, Wilfried ; Vilà, Montserrat ; Vohland, Katrin ; Settele, Josef

In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009, vol. 24, no. 12, p. 686-693

Climate change and biological invasions are key processes affecting global biodiversity, yet their effects have usually been considered separately. Here, we emphasise that global warming has enabled alien species to expand into regions in which they previously could not survive and reproduce. Based on a review of climate-mediated biological invasions of plants, invertebrates, fishes and birds, we...