Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe

0547604 - BÚ 2022 RIV BG eng J - Journal Article
Haubrock, P. J. - Turbelin, A. - Cuthbert, R. N. - Novoa, Ana - Taylor, N. G. - Angulo, E. - Ballesteros-Mejia, L. - Bodey, T. W. - Capinha, C. - Diagne, C. - Essl, F. - Golivets, M. - Kirichenko, N. - Kourantidou, M. - Leroy, B. - Renault, D. - Verbrugge, L. - Courchamp, F.
Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe.
Neobiota. Roč. 67, Jul 29 (2021), s. 153-190. ISSN 1619-0033. E-ISSN 1314-2488
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GX19-28807X
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : monetary impacts * non-native biota * socio-economic correlates
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 4.225, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.67.58196

Europe has strong trade and transport links with the rest of the world, facilitating hundreds of IAS incursions, and largely centralised decision-making frameworks. The present study is the first comprehensive and detailed effort that quantifies the costs of IAS collectively across European countries and examines temporal trends in these data. In addition, the distributions of costs across countries, socioeconomic sectors and taxonomic groups are examined, as are socio-economic correlates of management and damage costs. Total costs of IAS in Europe summed to US$140.20 billion (or €116.61 billion) between 1960 and 2020, with the majority (60%) being damage-related and impacting multiple sectors. Temporally, invasion costs have increased exponentially through time, with up to US$23.58 billion (€19.64 billion) in 2013, and US$139.56 billion (€116.24 billion) in impacts extrapolated in 2020. Importantly, although these costs are substantial, there remain knowledge gaps on several geographic and taxonomic scales, indicating that these costs are severely underestimated. We, thus, urge increased and improved cost reporting for economic impacts of IAS and coordinated international action to prevent further spread and mitigate impacts of IAS populations.
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