The world needs BRICS countries to build capacity in invasion science

Measey, John; Visser, Vernon; Dgebuadze, Yury Yu.; Inderjit, Inderjit; Li, Bo; Dechoum, Michele de Sá; Ziller, Sílvia Renate; Richardson, David M.

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000404

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“…African Union, European Union, NAFTA) and strategic global networks (e.g. BRICS; Measey et al ., 2019) must be exploited to promote collaborations and to fast‐track crucial interventions to slow rates of new introductions and to deal more effectively with established invaders. Global efforts are needed to help less‐developed countries where research on invasive alien species is limited and that currently lack the capacity to tackle such complex problems.…”

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Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

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Biological invasions are a global consequence of an increasingly connected world and the rise in human population size. The numbers of invasive alien species – the subset of alien species that spread widely in areas where they are not native, affecting the environment or human livelihoods – are increasing. Synergies with other global changes are exacerbating current invasions and facilitating new ones, thereby escalating the extent and impacts of invaders. Invasions have complex and often immense long‐term direct and indirect impacts. In many cases, such impacts become apparent or problematic only when invaders are well established and have large ranges. Invasive alien species break down biogeographic realms, affect native species richness and abundance, increase the risk of native species extinction, affect the genetic composition of native populations, change native animal behaviour, alter phylogenetic diversity across communities, and modify trophic networks. Many invasive alien species also change ecosystem functioning and the delivery of ecosystem services by altering nutrient and contaminant cycling, hydrology, habitat structure, and disturbance regimes. These biodiversity and ecosystem impacts are accelerating and will increase further in the future. Scientific evidence has identified policy strategies to reduce future invasions, but these strategies are often insufficiently implemented. For some nations, notably Australia and New Zealand, biosecurity has become a national priority. There have been long‐term successes, such as eradication of rats and cats on increasingly large islands and biological control of weeds across continental areas. However, in many countries, invasions receive little attention. Improved international cooperation is crucial to reduce the impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human livelihoods. Countries can strengthen their biosecurity regulations to implement and enforce more effective management strategies that should also address other global changes that interact with invasions.

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“…Indeed many countries in Africa, south and central Asia, Indochina, the Balkans, and South and Central America have limited response capacities to address biological invasions (Early et al 2016 ). Although there have been repeated calls to increase the global capacity to manage biological invasions (Shimura et al 2010 , Liebhold et al 2017 , Measey et al 2019 ), there have been few initiatives established to achieve this goal. It is evident that even with a legally binding international instrument, achieving such a goal would require much more investment and a longer timescale than previously envisaged.…”

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Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions

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2021

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“…Had adequate data been available, and a PBDMbased pest risk analysis (Gutierrez 1996;Ponti et al 2015a, b) been performed before T. absoluta invaded (Desneux et al 2010;Biondi et al 2018) as documented for another moth in the same Family Gelechiidae, the pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Stern and Sevacherian 1978). The invasive range of T. absoluta now includes many developing countries that are under-resourced to implement policies for preventing and managing biological invasions (Measey et al 2019). In eight years, the species invaded the whole African continent (Biondi et al 2018;Biondi and Desneux 2019) where it threatens the food security and livelihoods of subsistence farmers of solanaceous crops (Pratt et al 2017;Aigbedion-Atalor et al 2019).…”

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Biological invasion risk assessment of Tuta absoluta: mechanistic versus correlative methods

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The capacity to assess invasion risk from potential crop pests before invasion of new regions globally would be invaluable, but this requires the ability to predict accurately their potential geographic range and relative abundance in novel areas. This may be unachievable using de facto standard correlative methods as shown for the South American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta, a serious insect pest of tomato native to South America. Its global invasive potential was not identified until after rapid invasion of Europe, followed by Africa and parts of Asia where it has become a major food security problem on solanaceous crops. Early prospective assessment of its potential range is possible using physiologically based demographic modeling that would have identified knowledge gaps in T. absoluta biology at low temperatures. Physiologically based demographic models (PBDMs) realistically capture the weather-driven biology in a mechanistic way allowing evaluation of invasive risk in novel areas and climes including climate change. PBDMs explain the biological bases for the geographic distribution, are generally applicable to species of any taxa, are not limited to terrestrial ecosystems, and hence can be extended to support ecological risk modeling in aquatic ecosystems. PBDMs address a lack of unified general methods for assessing and managing invasive species that has limited invasion biology from becoming a more predictive science.

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The world needs BRICS countries to build capacity in invasion science

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

Scientists' warning on invasive alien species

Advancing One Biosecurity to Address the Pandemic Risks of Biological Invasions

Biological invasion risk assessment of Tuta absoluta: mechanistic versus correlative methods

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