Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic

By Grant A. Duffy, B. Coetzee, Guillaume Latombe, Alexander H. Akerman, M. McGeoch, Steven L. Chown. 2017

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Biological invasions are a substantial threat to Antarctic biodiversity and a priority conservation policy focus for Antarctic Treaty Parties and the sovereign states of surrounding islands. Key to their strategies is prevention, including assessment of establishment risk for alien species. Despite establishment of some of the worst globally invasive species across the Antarctic region, assessments of establishment potential of these species are non‐existent. Here, we address this deficit and determine whether these invasive species constitute a significant conservation threat to the broader Antarctic region both now and in response to future regional climate change.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology

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