An Applied Empirical Framework for Invasion Science: Confronting Biological Invasion Through Collaborative Research Aimed at Tool Production

Blackburn, Gwylim S.; Bilodeau, Pierre; Cooke, Tracey; Cui, Mingming; Cusson, Michel; Hamelin, Richard; Keena, Melody A.; Picq, Sandrine; Roe, Amanda D.; Shi, Juan; Wu, Yingliang; Porth, Ilga

doi:10.1093/aesa/saz072

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“…High percentages of non-English costs were also reported in other countries, such as in Spain or Japan (98%, Angulo et al 2021c;and 100%, Watari et al 2021, respectively), and this percentage was lower but also important in countries such as Germany or Ecuador (69%, Haubrock et al 2021b;52%, Ballesteros-Mejias et al 2021) or in general in the Central and South America continent and in Asia (Heringer et al 2021;Liu et al 2021). In line with the recent suggestion from Blackburn et al (2020), this observation proves that academics must continue their engagements towards a more collaborative science for improving the sharing of knowledge and having adequate communication of invasion science findings to the public (Mattingly et al 2020), and ultimately an ability to better tackle the issues caused by invasive alien species.…”

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confidence: 71%

Biological invasions in France: Alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps

Renault¹,

Manfrini²,

Leroy³

et al. 2021

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The ever-increasing number of introduced species profoundly threatens global biodiversity. While the ecological and evolutionary consequences of invasive alien species are receiving increasing attention, their economic impacts have largely remained understudied, especially in France. Here, we aimed at providing a general overview of the monetary losses (damages caused by) and expenditures (management of) associated with invasive alien species in France. This country has a long history of alien species presence, partly due to its long-standing global trade activities, highly developed tourism, and presence of overseas territories in different regions of the globe, resulting in a conservative minimum of 2,750 introduced and invasive alien species. By synthesizing for the first time the monetary losses and expenditures incurred by invasive alien species in Metropolitan France and French overseas territories, we obtained 1,583 cost records for 98 invasive alien species. We found that they caused a conservative total amount ranging between US$ 1,280 million and 11,535 million in costs over the period 1993–2018. We extrapolated costs for species invading France, for which costs were reported in other countries but not in France, which yielded an additional cost ranging from US$ 151 to 3,030 millions. Damage costs were nearly eight times higher than management expenditure. Insects, and in particular the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus and the yellow fever mosquito Ae. aegypti, totalled very high economic costs, followed by non-graminoid terrestrial flowering and aquatic plants (Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Ludwigia sp. and Lagarosiphon major). Over 90% of alien species currently recorded in France had no costs reported in the literature, resulting in high biases in taxonomic, regional and activity sector coverages. To conclude, we report alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps. Our results should raise awareness of the importance of biosecurity and biosurveillance in France, and beyond, as well as the crucial need for better reporting and documentation of cost data.

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confidence: 71%

Biological invasions in France: Alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps

Renault¹,

Manfrini²,

Leroy³

et al. 2021

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“…Doing so is necessary to prevent the emergence of small, separate populations of alien species, whose detection and eradication has been shown to be more important than that of large populations (Mack and Lonsdale 2002). This result provides support for the importance of the species-targeted, cross-boundary control efforts for invasive alien species of agricultural and environmental concern that have been advocated elsewhere (Epanchin-Niell and Hastings 2010; Kark et al 2015;Blackburn et al 2020).…”

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The effect of cross-boundary management on the trajectory to commonness in biological invasions

Latombe¹,

Essl²,

McGeoch³

2020

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The number of alien species introduced and undergoing range expansion in novel environments is steadily increasing, with important consequences for native ecosystems. The efficacy of management planning and decision making to limit such invasions can be improved by understanding how interventions will impact the population dynamics of recently introduced species. To do so, here we expand on a typological framework that enables the classification of populations over time into 10 categories of commonness, and apply it to a spatially discrete metapopulation with heterogeneous abundance across spatial units (patches). We use this framework to assess the effect of cross-boundary management on the capacity of a metapopulation with different demographic and dispersal characteristics, including time lags in population growth, to become common. We demonstrate this framework by simulating a simple theoretical metapopulation model capable of exploring a range of environments, species characteristics, and management actions. Management can vary in the efficacy of propagule interception between patches, and in the synchronisation of the implementation of these measures across patches (i.e. if management is implemented simultaneously across patches). Simulations show that poor interception efficacy that only modestly reduces the number of propagules entering a given spatial unit cannot be compensated for by strong management synchronisation between spatial units. Management synchronisation will nonetheless result in a reduction in rates of spread once a critical threshold of interception efficacy has been met. Finally, time lags in population growth that may result in delayed spread are an important aspect to be considered in management as they can amplify the efficacy of management. Our results demonstrate how a typological framework of categories of commonness can be used to provide practical insights for the management of biological invasions.

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“…Thus, the SInAS workflow will help to differentiate and integrate the various approaches, and finally will increase trust not only in data but also in study results and conclusions communicated to the decision makers and the general public (Franz and Sterner 2018). The potential to customise and extend the workflow increases the range of possible applications such as the calculation of indicators (e.g., Wilson et al 2018), the ability to conduct global and regional assessments of invasive alien species and their control, and the global collaboration being proposed as essential for dealing with priority invaders (Blackburn et al 2020).…”

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A workflow for standardising and integrating alien species distribution data

Seebens¹,

Clarke²,

Groom³

et al. 2020

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Biodiversity data are being collected at unprecedented rates. Such data often have significant value for purposes beyond the initial reason for which they were collected, particularly when they are combined and collated with other data sources. In the field of invasion ecology, however, integrating data represents a major challenge due to the notorious lack of standardisation of terminologies and categorisations, and the application of deviating concepts of biological invasions. Here, we introduce the SInAS workflow, short for Standardising and Integrating Alien Species data. The SInAS workflow standardises terminologies following Darwin Core, location names using a proposed translation table, taxon names based on the GBIF backbone taxonomy, and dates of first records based on a set of predefined rules. The output of the SInAS workflow provides various entry points that can be used both to improve coherence among the databases and to check and correct the original data. The workflow is flexible and can be easily adapted and extended to the needs of different users. We illustrate the workflow using a case-study integrating five widely used global databases of information on biological invasions. The comparison of the standardised databases revealed a surprisingly low degree of overlap, which indicates that the amount of data may currently not be fully exploited in the original databases. We highly recommend the use and development of publicly available workflows to ensure that the integration of databases is reproducible and transparent. Workflows, such as SInAS, ultimately increase trust in data, study results, and conclusions.

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An Applied Empirical Framework for Invasion Science: Confronting Biological Invasion Through Collaborative Research Aimed at Tool Production

Cited by 13 publications

References 102 publications

Biological invasions in France: Alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps

Biological invasions in France: Alarming costs and even more alarming knowledge gaps

The effect of cross-boundary management on the trajectory to commonness in biological invasions

A workflow for standardising and integrating alien species distribution data

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