Should Biological Invasions be Managed as Natural Disasters?

By A. Ricciardi, M. Palmer, N. Yan. 2011

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Progress toward understanding the ecological impacts of nonnative species (2013, background): “Indeed, impacts have an inverse magnitude–frequency relationship remarkably similar to natural hazards such as earthquakes (Ricciardi et al. 2011b); for example, although a substantial proportion of global animal extinctions have been linked to nonnative species (Clavero and Garcı́a-Berthou 2005),…”
Potential of remote sensing to predict species invasions (2015, background): “Collectively, annual economic losses due to species invasions are about one order of magnitude higher than those caused by all natural disasters put together (see Ricciardi et al., 2011).”
Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, result): “…assumed that most invasions have negligible environmental consequences (Williamson and Fitter 1996), whereas a small proportion has significant and sometimes enormous effects – an inverse magnitude–frequency distribution similar to that associated with natural disasters (Ricciardi et al. 2011).”
Mapping the global state of invasive alien species: patterns of invasion and policy responses (2017, background): “Their global impacts are substantial and costly (e.g. Pimentel et al., 2005; Stohlgren & Schnase, 2006; Kettunen et al., 2009; Ricciardi et al., 2011), making species invasions an environmental issue of great global significance.”