A practical tool for assessing ecosystem services enhancement and degradation associated with invasive alien species

Martinez‐Cillero, Rocio; Willcock, Simon; Perez‐Diaz, Alvaro; Joslin, Emma; Vergeer, Philippine; Peh, Kelvin S.‐H.

doi:10.1002/ece3.5020

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“…However, several different strategies have been adopted to measure impact magnitudes. Frameworks such as those proposed by Sandvik et al (2013) and Martinez-Cillero et al (2019) use ranking scales which distinguish between low (or noticeable), substantial (or medium), and high (intense) impacts. The scales may be associated with parameters that can be numerically quantified such as the spatial extent of the non-native range, genetic diversity, fitness and abundance of native individuals or provision of ecosystem services (Bartz and Kowarik 2019; Crystal-Ornelas and Lockwood 2020).…”

Section: Reasons and Suggestions To Develop Framework Assessing Posimentioning

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“…The scales may be associated with parameters that can be numerically quantified such as the spatial extent of the non-native range, genetic diversity, fitness and abundance of native individuals or provision of ecosystem services (Bartz and Kowarik 2019; Crystal-Ornelas and Lockwood 2020). As a consequence, such scoring scales could be easily adapted to assess bidirectional changes (Martinez-Cillero et al 2019). Although general scaling approaches may allow the assessment of many alien species and adopt a fully symmetrical bidirectional approach (Zengeya et al 2017), they may still be prone to subjectivity, especially when the distinction between the magnitude levels is not accurately described.…”

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“…The INSEAT framework (INvasive Species Effects Assessment Tool) developed by Martinez-Cillero et al (2019) adopts a bidirectional scoring system to quantify ecosystem service gains and losses caused by alien species. To date, the INSEAT scheme has been tested on 18 alien species in Great Britain (Martinez-Cillero et al 2019). The renewed attention paid toward ecosystem services and disservices linked to alien species (Vaz et al 2017;Vilà and Hulme 2017;Potgieter et al 2019b;Shackleton et al 2019a;Milanović et al 2020) might promote the future application of the scheme across different regions and taxonomic groups.…”

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The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species

Vimercati¹,

Kumschick²,

Probert³

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Extensive literature is available on the diversity and magnitude of impacts that alien species cause on recipient systems. Alien species may decrease or increase attributes of ecosystems (e.g. total biomass or species diversity), thus causing negative and positive environmental impacts. Alien species may also negatively or positively impact attributes linked to local human communities (e.g. the number of people involved in a given activity). Ethical and societal values contribute to define these environmental and socio-economic impacts as deleterious or beneficial. Whilst most of the literature focuses on the deleterious effects of alien taxa, some recognise their beneficial impacts on ecosystems and human activities. Impact assessment frameworks show a similar tendency to evaluate mainly deleterious impacts: only relatively few, and not widely applied, frameworks incorporate the beneficial impacts of alien species. Here, we provide a summary of the frameworks assessing beneficial impacts and briefly discuss why they might have been less frequently cited and applied than frameworks assessing exclusively deleterious impacts. Then, we review arguments that invoke a greater consideration of positive and beneficial impacts caused by alien species across the invasion science literature. We collate and describe arguments from a set of 47 papers, grouping them in two categories (value-free and value-laden), which span from a theoretical, basic science perspective to an applied science perspective. We also provide example cases associated with each argument. We advocate that the development of transparent and evidence-based frameworks assessing positive and beneficial impacts might advance our scientific understanding of impact dynamics and better inform management and prioritisation decisions. We also advise that this development should be achieved by recognising the underlying ethical and societal values of the frameworks and their intrinsic limitations. The evaluation of positive and beneficial impacts through impact assessment frameworks should not be seen as an attempt to outweigh or to discount deleterious impacts of alien taxa but rather as an opportunity to provide additional information for scientists, managers and policymakers.

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Probert³

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“…INSEAT considers both positive and negative impacts of IAS on ecosystem services (ES) and uses the ES framework, commonly classified into provisioning, regulating, and cultural services. This differs from SEICAT, which uses the constituents of human wellbeing, and from EICAT, which defines its own categories of environmental impacts [ 78 ].…”

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Biopollution by Invasive Marine Non-Indigenous Species: A Review of Potential Adverse Ecological Effects in a Changing Climate

Occhipinti‐Ambrogi

2021

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Biopollution by alien species is considered one of the main threats to environmental health. The marine environment, traditionally less studied than inland domains, has been the object of recent work that is reviewed here. Increasing scientific evidence has been accumulated worldwide on ecosystem deterioration induced by the development of massive non-indigenous population outbreaks in many coastal sites. Biopollution assessment procedures have been proposed, adopting criteria already used for xenochemical compounds, adjusting them to deal with alien species invasions. On the other hand, prevention and mitigation measures to reduce biopollution impact cannot always mimic the emission countermeasures that have been successfully applied for chemical pollutants. Nevertheless, in order to design comprehensive water-quality criteria, risk assessment and management strategies, based on scientific knowledge, have been developed in a similar way as for chemical pollution. The Mediterranean Sea is a well-known case of alien species invasion, mainly linked to the opening of the Suez Canal. Non-indigenous species have caused well-documented changes in many coastal ecosystems, favoured by concomitant changes induced by global warming and by the heavy load of nutrients and pollutants by various anthropogenic activities. Naval commercial traffic and leisure boats are among the most active vectors of spread for alien species inside the Mediterranean, and also towards other ocean regions. The scientific evidence gathered and summarized in this review suggests that effective management actions, under a precautionary approach, should be put in place in order to control introductions of species in new areas. These management measures are already established in international treaties and national legislations, but should be enforced to prevent the disruption of the dynamic ecological equilibria in the receiving environment and to control the direct adverse effects of alien species.

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“…The frameworks / concepts used as cited in the papers are: Biopollution assessment scheme (Olenin et al 2007); Bridgehead effect (Lombaert et al 2010); Categories of commonness (McGeoch and Latombe 2016); CBD pathway classification (CBD 2014;Harrower et al 2017), and also Hulme et al (2008); Confidence rating (as cited by Hawkins et al 2015); EICAT (the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa) (Blackburn et al 2014;Hawkins et al 2015;IUCN 2020); eradication feasibility (Panetta and Timmins 2004;Wilson et al 2017); the Hawai'i-Pacific Weed Risk Assessment (Daehler et al 2004) the Human Adaptation to Invasive Species framework (Howard 2019); indicator frameworks for biological invasions (McGeoch et al 2010;Latombe et al 2017;Wilson et al 2018) see also sTWIST -Theory and Workflows for Alien and Invasive Species Tracking (https://www.idiv.de/en/stwist.html); invasion syndromes (Novoa et al 2020); Invasive species assessment protocol (Morse et al 2004); INvasive Species Effects Assessment Tool (InSEAT) (Martinez-Cillero et al 2019); impacts of invasive marine species (Katsanevakis et al 2014); the New Zealand biosecurity surveillance sys...…”

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Frameworks used in invasion science: progress and prospects

Wilson¹,

Bacher²,

Daehler³

et al. 2020

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Our understanding and management of biological invasions relies on our ability to classify and conceptualise the phenomenon. This need has stimulated the development of a plethora of frameworks, ranging in nature from conceptual to applied. However, most of these frameworks have not been widely tested and their general applicability is unknown. In order to critically evaluate frameworks in invasion science, we held a workshop on ‘Frameworks used in Invasion Science’ hosted by the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in November 2019, which led to this special issue. For the purpose of the workshop we defined a framework as “a way of organising things that can be easily communicated to allow for shared understanding or that can be implemented to allow for generalisations useful for research, policy or management”. Further, we developed the Stellenbosch Challenge for Invasion Science: “Can invasion science develop and improve frameworks that are useful for research, policy or management, and that are clear as to the contexts in which the frameworks do and do not apply?”. Particular considerations identified among meeting participants included the need to identify the limitations of a framework, specify how frameworks link to each other and broader issues, and to improve how frameworks can facilitate communication. We believe that the 24 papers in this special issue do much to meet this challenge. The papers apply existing frameworks to new data and contexts, review how the frameworks have been adopted and used, develop useable protocols and guidelines for applying frameworks to different contexts, refine the frameworks in light of experience, integrate frameworks for new purposes, identify gaps, and develop new frameworks to address issues that are currently not adequately dealt with. Frameworks in invasion science must continue to be developed, tested as broadly as possible, revised, and retired as contexts and needs change. However, frameworks dealing with pathways of introduction, progress along the introduction-naturalisation-invasion continuum, and the assessment of impacts are being increasingly formalised and set as standards. This, we argue, is an important step as invasion science starts to mature as a discipline.

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A practical tool for assessing ecosystem services enhancement and degradation associated with invasive alien species

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The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species

The importance of assessing positive and beneficial impacts of alien species

Biopollution by Invasive Marine Non-Indigenous Species: A Review of Potential Adverse Ecological Effects in a Changing Climate

Frameworks used in invasion science: progress and prospects

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