A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions
By Guillaume Latombe, Petr Pyšek, Jonathan M. Jeschke, T. Blackburn, S. Bacher, César Capinha, Mark John Costello, Miguel Fernández, R. Gregory, D. Hobern and 12 more. 2017
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Managing biological invasions relies on good global coverage of species distributions. Accurate information on alien species distributions, obtained from international policy and cross-border co-operation, is required to evaluate trans-boundary and trading partnership risks. However, a standardized approach for systematically monitoring alien species and tracking biological invasions is still lacking. This Perspective presents a vision for global observation and monitoring of biological invasions. We show how the architecture for tracking biological invasions is provided by a minimum information set of Essential Variables, global collaboration on data sharing and infrastructure, and strategic contributions by countries. We show how this novel, synthetic approach to an observation system for alien species provides a tangible and attainable solution to delivering the information needed to slow the rate of new incursions and reduce the impacts of invaders. We identify three Essential Variables for Invasion Monitoring; alien species occurrence, species alien status and alien species impact. We outline how delivery of this minimum information set by joint, complementary contributions from countries and global community initiatives is possible. Country contributions are made feasible using a modular approach where all countries are able to participate and strategically build their contributions to a global information set over time. The vision we outline will deliver wide-ranging benefits to countries and international efforts to slow the rate of biological invasions and minimize their environmental impacts. These benefits will accrue over time as global coverage and information on alien species increases.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Insect Science
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- Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes (2017, unknown): “…of the key components for evaluating the status of biodiversity in a given country, as well as threats to endangered species, and provide source data for creating relevant indicators (Lambdon et al. 2008, CelestiGrapow et al. 2010, Pyšek et al. 2012, van Kleunen et al. 2015, Latombe et al. 2017).”
- Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, background): “Cooperation is urgently needed among countries to craft biosecurity programs that are more cost-effective than those where countries act largely in isolation (Latombe et al. 2017).”
- Socio‐economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT) (2018, background): “…could be used for developing an indicator of trends in socio-economic impacts, which is of crucial importance to guide policy and management decisions (Latombe et al. 2017; Rabitsch et al. 2016).”
- Barriers to globally invasive species are weakening across the Antarctic (2017, background): “Such assessments can subsequently improve preventative measures through targeted monitoring for particular species (at areas of entrainment and/or arrival, and for particular vectors or paths) and/or surveillance of at- risk sites (e.g., Crall et al., 2013; Latombe et al., 2016; McGeoch et al., 2016”
- Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination (2017, background): “An on-going priority application of the Species Distribution EBV is monitoring invasive alien species from national to global scales [42,43].”