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

0348952 - BÚ 2011 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Pyšek, Petr - Jarošík, Vojtěch - Wild, Jan - Hejda, Martin - Pergl, Jan … Total 26 authors
Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Roč. 107, č. 27 (2010), s. 12157-12162. ISSN 0027-8424. E-ISSN 1091-6490
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT 7E09053
Grant - others:ALARM(XE) GOCE-CT-2003-506675; European Comission(XE) SSPI-CT-2003-511202
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60050516
Keywords : biological invasions * Europe * economy
Subject RIV: EF - Botanics
Impact factor: 9.771, year: 2010

The importance of biogeographic, climatic, economic, and demographic factors as drivers of biological invasions is increasingly being realized but as yet there is no consensus regarding their relative importance. Whereas little may be done to mitigate the effects of geography and climate on invasions, a wider range of options may exist to moderate the impacts of economic and demographic drivers. Here we use the most recent data available from Europe to partition between macroecological, economic, and demographic variables the variation in alien species richness of bryophytes, fungi, vascular plants, terrestrial insects, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Only national wealth and human population density were statistically significant predictors in the majority of models when analyzed jointly with climate, geography, and land cover.
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