Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal, and microbe invasions

By D. Pimentel, S. Mcnair, J. Janecka, J. Wightman, C. Simmonds, C. O’Connell, E. Wong, L. Russel, J. Zern, T. Aquino and 1 more. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Invasive weed species’ threats to global biodiversity: Future scenarios of changes in the number of invasive species in a changing climate (2020, background): “The increased trade and travel associated with globalization has provided new pathways of IWS dispersal (Pimentel et al., 2001).”
A review of introductions of pathogens and nematodes for classical biological control of insects and mites (2007, background): “States (Pimentel et al., 2000) and the activity of these exotics that become pests results in huge monetary losses around the world (Pimentel, 2002).”
Rethinking the common garden in invasion research. (2009, methodology): “To this end, the MOD can be extended by experimentally manipulating the environmental factor hypothesized to be important to the levels observed in each of the provenance regions (see Nuismer and Gandon (2008) for an experimental design suited to do this in the case of tight coevolution with an in”
Climate change and diseases of food crops (2011, background): “The major climate-change factors likely to influence plant disease severity and spread include: increased atmospheric CO2, heavy and unseasonal rains, increased humidity, drought, cyclones and hurricanes and warmer winter temperatures (Cannon, 1998; Chakraborty et al., 2000; Pimentel et al., 2001; R”
Genetic control of invasive fish: technological options and its role in integrated pest management (2014, background): “As many as half a million species have been introduced to new geographical regions as a result of human activities, with an estimated annual cost globally to agriculture alone of $248 billion (Pimentel et al. 2001, 2005).”
Status, invasiveness and environmental threats of three tropical American invasive weeds (Parthenium hysterophorus L., Ageratum conyzoides L., Lantana camara L.) in India (2006, background): “Studies have shown that invasion of plant species in alien environments causes ecosystem imbalance and thus is detrimental to ecological integrity and economies of the invaded area (Pimentel et al. 2001).”
NATURAL RESOURCES DEPLETION, RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING WORLD (2021, background): “Fossil fuel is the easiest and cheapest method of energy production, but it is attached with higher amount of greenhouse gases (Ulgiati and Pimentel, 1997; Youngquist, 1997; Pimentel and Kounang, 1998; Croysdale, 2001; Pimentel et al., 2001; Fuel’s Gold, 2002; Lieberman, 2002; Hodge, 2002).”
Introduced species policy, management, and future research needs (2005, background): “In the US alone, Pimentel et al. (2000a) estimated an annual cost of $137 billion, while an analogous figure for the US plus the United Kingdom, Australia, India, South Africa, and Brazil was in excess of $336 billion (Pimentel et al. 2000b).”