Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions

By C. Bellard, P. Cassey, T. Blackburn. Biology Letters, 2016

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Socio‐economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT) (2018, background): “Biological invasions are a major driver of global change and can cause high costs to recipient environments and socio-economies (Pimentel et al. 2005; MEA 2005; Bellard et al. 2016).”
Application of the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) to a global assessment of alien bird impacts (2016, background): “Baker et al. (2014) concluded that there is little evidence for detrimental impacts generated by alien birds, and the low number of alien birds implicated in the extinction of native species (Bellard et al., 2016) also suggests that their impacts are not particularly severe.”
Assessing the Relevance of Herbarium Collections as Tools for Conservation Biology (2017, background): “As it is well known, invasions constitute a great threat for native floras and the functioning of ecosystems (Vilà & Ibáñez, 2011; Bellard et al., 2016); thus, their prevention and management have become crucial for natural ecosystem’s conservation (González-Moreno et al., 2014).”
Invasive alien species on islands: impacts, distribution, interactions and management (2017, background): “On islands alone, IASs currently rank even higher as a threat to threatened (Bellard et al. 2016) and critically endangered species (Tershy et al.”
Red list of threatened vascular plants in Italy (2020, background): “On a global level, climatic change and alien species are considered two alarming drivers of species extinction (Gómez et al. 2015; Bellard et al. 2016).”
Alien versus native species as drivers of recent extinctions (2019, background): “Aside from birds, the proportion of extinctions ascribed to alien impacts in the taxa analysed by Bellard et al. is lower in the updated IUCN data (c.f. Figure 1 with Table 1 in Bellard et al. 2016a).”
Biological Invasions in Conservation Planning: A Global Systematic Review (2018, positive): “Invasive alien species can modify community composition, may cause local extinctions and the loss of native genotypes, modify habitats, and affect food-web properties, ecosystem processes and functioning (Vilà et al., 2010; Katsanevakis et al., 2014; Bellard et al., 2016).”
Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “Other examples include those in which predatory invasive animals cause local extinction of other animals that themselves drive ecosystem processes (Bellard et al. 2016), such as we discuss above for effects of invasive rats on burrowing seabirds, or of yellow crazy ants on land crabs.”