Invasive Alien Species in an Era of Globalization

By L. Meyerson, H. Mooney. 2007

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Globalization facilitates the spread of invasive alien species (IAS) as international commerce develops new trade routes, markets, and products. New technologies increase the pace at which humans and commodities can move around the world. Recent research on IAS at the global scale has examined commerce and travel in order to inform predictions, risk analyses, and policy. Due to limited data, regional-scale studies have primarily focused on invasion patterns rather than impacts. Local-scale experimental research can identify mechanisms and impacts of biological invasions, but the results may not be applicable at larger spatial scales. However, the number of information networks devoted to IAS is increasing globally and may help integrate IAS research at all scales, particularly if data sharing and compatibility can be improved. Integrating ecological and economic factors with trade analysis to explore the effectiveness of different approaches for preventing invasions is a promising approach at the global s...

Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science

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Citations in the corpus

• A unifying framework for biological invasions: the state factor model (2008, background): “Recent calls for investigating biological invasions in a biogeographic context (Meyerson and Mooney 2007; Hierro et al. 2005), and standardization and sharing of information (Rice 2007), are excellent starting points for advancing the science of invasion ecology in a global context.”
• Trade, transport and trouble: managing invasive species pathways in an era of globalization (2009, background): “2005; Meyerson & Mooney 2007).”
• An overview of invasive plants in Brazil. (2011, background): “Currently, despite the existence of extensive number of global and regional databases and information networks on invasive species (Meyerson & Mooney 2007), information concerning invasive alien species in Brazil is largely unavailable in the scientific literature (Petenon & Pivello 2008).”
• Saving camels from straws: how propagule pressure-based prevention policies can reduce the risk of biological invasion (2008, background): “an increase in genetic diversity and the likelihood that the species could establish in a broader range of habitats as well as cause a wider ranger and perhaps intensity of impacts (Lockwood et al. 2005; Roman 2006; Meyerson and Mooney 2007).”
• Fish Invasions in the World's River Systems: When Natural Processes Are Blurred by Human Activities (2008, background): “, the number of individuals released and the frequency of introductions in a given habitat), human activities facilitate the establishment of nonnative species [9,13,14].”
• Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050 (2020, unknown): “Humans are increasingly reshaping global biogeography by trans-porting species to regions beyond their natural ranges, where they may become permanent additions to local biota (Meyerson & Mooney, 2007; Sax & Gaines, 2008; Turbelin, Malamud, & Francis, 2017).”
• An inventory of invasive alien species in China (2012, background): “As the role of socio-economic factors in driving plant invasions is often underestimated, both human-mediated and natural factors should be considered in analyzing patterns of plant invasions (Liu et al. 2005, Meyerson and Mooney 2007).”
• Biological invasions in developing and developed countries: does one model fit all? (2010, background): “International trade is a major component in explaining current levels of biological invasions worldwide (Meyerson and Mooney 2007).”
• Identifying hotspots for plant invasions and forecasting focal points of further spread (2009, background): “Another consideration is the exacerbation of invasive species impact predicted with global change (Hobbs & Mooney 2005; Meyerson & Mooney 2007).”
• Invasion of glossy privet (Ligustrum lucidum) and native forest loss in the Sierras Chicas of Córdoba, Argentina (2010, background): “In an increasingly globalized world, both frequency and extent of exotic plant invasions are growing rapidly, thus increasing the need to understand their ecological effects and monitor their spread (Vitousek et al. 1997; Meyerson and Mooney 2007).”
• Coral reef ecology in the Anthropocene (2019, background): “…human migra - tion and trade has caused dramatic changes to the dispersion and diversity of species globally (Banks, Paini, Bayliss, & Hodda, 2014; Meyerson & Mooney, 2007; Westphal, Browne, MacKinnon, & Noble, 2008), with both positive and negative impacts to ecosys - tem services (Charles &…”