Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions

Hulme, Philip E.

doi:10.1093/biosci/biab019

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“…112 More recently, the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments entered into force in 2017 and in the long-term should significantly reduce the inadvertent transport of invasive alien species in ballast water. 113 Potentially, these initiatives should have weakened the relationship between the flow of imports and the introduction of alien species, but is there any evidence that this is the case?…”

Section: International Trade Regulation Can Reduce Invasion Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A key outcome arising from One Biosecurity would be a more coordinated focus on dealing with the pandemic risks of invasive alien species through the early identification and management by governments of alien species within their territory that have the potential to spread across multiple continents. 113 New assessment methods would need to be developed to identify future pandemic biosecurity risks and there would have to be a stronger regulatory framework to ensure governments comply with surveillance and reporting requirements, which would entail greater investment in capacity building across the world, but these could all be achieved within a decade. 113 The central issue is the international appetite to repair the currently fractured and limited multilateral agreements addressing biosecurity and the commitment of governments and industry to more sustainable and cleaner trade.…”

Section: Biological Invasions Trade Away Our Sustainable Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

“…113 New assessment methods would need to be developed to identify future pandemic biosecurity risks and there would have to be a stronger regulatory framework to ensure governments comply with surveillance and reporting requirements, which would entail greater investment in capacity building across the world, but these could all be achieved within a decade. 113 The central issue is the international appetite to repair the currently fractured and limited multilateral agreements addressing biosecurity and the commitment of governments and industry to more sustainable and cleaner trade. To date, discussions on the sustainability of trade have largely focused on the displacement of environmental and social impacts from developed to developing countries, particularly in relation to the production of greenhouse gases and other pollutants that harm human health.…”

Section: Biological Invasions Trade Away Our Sustainable Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

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Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide

Hulme

2021

One Earth

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Biological invasions are synonymous with international trade. The direct effects of trade have largely been quantified using relationships between imports and the number of alien species in a region or patterns in the global spread of species linked to shipping and air traffic networks. But trade also has an indirect role on biological invasions by transforming the environments and societies of exporting and importing nations.Here, both the direct and indirect roles of trade on biological invasions, as well as their interaction, are examined for the first time. Future trends in international trade, including e-commerce, new trade routes, and major infrastructure developments, will lead to the pressure on national borders soon outstripping the resources available for intervention. The current legislative and scientific tools targeting biological invasions are insufficient to deal with this growing threat and require a new mindset that focuses on curbing the pandemic risk posed by alien species.

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Section: International Trade Regulation Can Reduce Invasion Riskmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Biological Invasions Trade Away Our Sustainable Futurementioning

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Section: Biological Invasions Trade Away Our Sustainable Futurementioning

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Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide

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2021

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“…For some alien species, valuable references for forests on other continents, which are similar to European temperate forests in ecological conditions, were not included in this study, but could provide interesting results for the prioritization of alien species in forest ecosystems. Paap et al (2020) encourages the collaboration of the two disciplines, invasion biology and plant pathology, to increase the success and efficiency for global biosecurity (Hulme 2021). In this study we experienced that interdisciplinary knowledge of the team of assessors is beneficial for cross-taxa EICAT assessments, which increased the understanding of the magnitude of environmental impacts of alien species of different taxonomic groups.…”

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Comparing environmental impacts of alien plants, insects and pathogens in protected riparian forests

Lapin¹,

Bacher²,

Cech³

et al. 2021

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The prioritization of alien species according to the magnitude of their environmental impacts has become increasingly important for the management of invasive alien species. In this study, we applied the Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa (EICAT) to classify alien taxa from three different taxonomic groups to facilitate the prioritisation of management actions for the threatened riparian forests of the Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve, South East Europe. With local experts we collated a list of 198 alien species (115 plants, 45 insects, and 38 fungi) with populations reported in southeast European forest ecosystems and included them in the EICAT. We found impact reports for 114 species. Eleven of these species caused local extinctions of a native species, 35 led to a population decrease, 51 to a reduction in performance in at least one native species and for 17 alien species no effects on individual fitness of native species were detected. Fungi had significantly highest impact and were more likely to have information on their impacts reported. Competition and parasitism were the most important impact mechanisms of alien species. This study is, to our knowledge, the first application of EICAT to all known alien species of several taxonomic groups in a protected area. The impact rankings enabled to identify taxa that generally cause high impacts and to prioritize species for the management in protected areas according to their impact magnitudes. By following a standardized impact protocol, we identified several alien species causing high impacts that do not appear on any expert-based risk list, which are relevant for policymakers. Thus, we recommend that alien species be systematically screened to identify knowledge gaps and prioritize their management with respect to spatio-temporal trends in impact magnitudes.

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“…Few states have demonstrated interest in a convention on IAS, possibly related to autonomy, uncertainty, and commitment costs (Hulme 2021). Absent an international convention, the CBD is viewed as the appropriate body to coordinate a "global approach" to IAS governance.…”

Section: Global Governancementioning

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Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics

Cruz¹,

Johnson²

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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As goods and people more rapidly traverse our interconnected world, invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly frequent, ecologically damaging, economically significant, and culturally concerning. Through examinations of IAS, global environmental politics (GEP) scholars can more deeply engage long-standing and newly emerging research problems within the three areas of global governance, global political economy, and environmental security. First, GEP scholars can use IAS research to further develop insights about the impact of problem structure on global governance. Second, examining IAS dispersal risks and associated costs, as well as intercountry variation in management responses, can generate insights about North–South power dynamics in the global political economy and how distributive conflict is likely to shape future invasion risk. Third, notions of environmental security in GEP scholarship can be challenged and further developed by examining the conceptualization and operationalization of “biosecurity” amid increasingly diverse multispecies assemblages. Greater research attention to IAS in GEP is long overdue, and we intend for this article to open novel pathways for GEP interdisciplinary research on IAS.

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Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions

Cited by 30 publications

References 99 publications

Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide

Unwelcome exchange: International trade as a direct and indirect driver of biological invasions worldwide

Comparing environmental impacts of alien plants, insects and pathogens in protected riparian forests

Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics

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