Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union

Morgane Henry, Brian Leung, Ross N. Cuthbert, Thomas W. Bodey, Danish A. Ahmed, Elena Angulo, Paride Balzani, Elizabeta Briski, Franck Courchamp, Philip E. Hulme, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Chunlong Liu, Rafael L. Macêdo, Francisco J. Oficialdegui, David Renault, Ismael Soto, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Anna J. Turbelin, Corey J. A. BradshawPhillip J. Haubrock* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Biological invasions threaten the functioning of ecosystems, biodiversity, and human well-being by degrading ecosystem services and eliciting massive economic costs. The European Union has historically been a hub for cultural development and global trade, and thus, has extensive opportunities for the introduction and spread of alien species. While reported costs of biological invasions to some member states have been recently assessed, ongoing knowledge gaps in taxonomic and spatio-temporal data suggest that these costs were considerably underestimated.
Original languageEnglish
Article number43
Number of pages16
JournalEnvironmental Sciences Europe
Volume35
Issue number1
Early online date8 Jun 2023
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jun 2023

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgements
PJH acknowledges the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Limnologie e.V. DR thanks InEE-CNRS who supported the national network ‘Biological Invasions’ (Groupement de Recherche InvaBio, 2014-2022).

Funding
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. RNC is funded by an Early Career Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (ECF-2021-001). MH was supported by a Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et Technologies team grant to BL. MK has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant agreement No. 899546. BL was funded by a BiodivERsA-Belmont Forum Project Alien Scenarios. FC and the InvaCost project are supported by the AXA Research Fund Chair of Biological Invasions at the University of Paris Saclay.

Keywords

  • Projection
  • InvaCost
  • Monetary Impacts
  • Invasion costs
  • Temporal trends
  • Missing data

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