The Economic Value of Controlling an Invasive Shrub

By E. Zavaleta. 2000

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Causes and Consequences of Invasive Plants in Wetlands: Opportunities, Opportunists, and Outcomes (2004, background): “Its ability to accrete sediments is seen as a cause of increased flooding, and its high water use and evapotransiration rates have high economic impacts throughout its arid-region distribution (Zavaleta, 2000).”
Dominance of non-native riparian trees in western USA (2005, background): “T. ramosissima and E. angustifolia are already targets of chemical, physical, and biological control efforts costing millions of dollars per year (Zavaleta 2000).”
Competition, seed limitation, disturbance, and reestablishment of California native annual forbs (2003, background): “Eradication and quarantine are often expensive and difficult (Zavaleta 2000, Zavaleta et al.”
Population control of coypu Myocastor coypus in Italy compared to eradication in UK: a cost-benefit analysis (2007, background): “By comparing the present situation with forecasts of future developments, several authors have indirectly suggested that prevention (Leung et al. 2002), eradication (Zavaleta 2000) and control (Anderson et al. 2004) of invasive alien species are cost efficient in the long term compared to no-action.”
Changing Perceptions of Change: The Role of Scientists in Tamarix and River Management (2009, background): “Hopes that significant quantities of water can be salvaged for human use remain a prime motivation for Tamarix eradication schemes (Zavaleta 2000; Shafroth & Briggs 2008), despite recent reviews and reports indicating that such actions offer no panacea for western water shortages and despite…”
A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts (2014, background): “The same alien species may also have impacts on human societies and economies [37], but these represent additional and complex dimensions of impacts [51–56], and one should avoid conflating environmental with non-environmental impacts.”
Benefits of Classical Biological Control for Managing Invasive Plants (2005, background): “Zavaleta (2000) estimated the cost of herbicidal treatment of tamarisk ( Tamarix spp.”
Biology of Diorhabda elongata deserticola (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an Asian leaf beetle for biological control of saltcedars (Tamarix spp.) in the United States (2003, background): “Recent economic assessments estimate that saltcedars cost the Western United States between $133 and $185million each year in lost ecosystem services (Brown et al., 1989; Zavaleta, 2000).”
Importing exotic plants and the risk of invasion: are market-based instruments adequate? (2005, background): “One estimate puts the annual damages from this species alone at $121 to 291 million (Zavaleta, 2000).”
Economics of invasive species policy and management (2017, background): “This approach assesses whether the benefits of a project outweigh its costs to determine if it is a worthwhile investment (e.g., Keller et al. 2007; Zavaleta 2000).”
Five Potential Consequences of Climate Change for Invasive Species (2008, background): “Tamarix are thought to use more water than native riparian taxa (Zavaleta 2000), and increasing scarcity of water under climate change could enhance the relative impact of water uptake by this species.”
Classical biological control for the protection of natural ecosystems (2010, background): “Saltcedars (Tamarix ramosissima, other Tamarix species, and hybrids) infest about 650,000 ha in western North America, primarily along desert rivers where they displace native willow (Salix spp.) and cottonwood (Populus spp.) (Zavaleta, 2000).”
Current mismatch between research and conservation efforts: The need to study co-occurring invasive plant species (2013, background): “, 2003), and a rich catalogue of individual invader impacts that include those driving major shifts in ecosystem functioning (Ehrenfeld, 2010; Vitousek et al., 1987; Zavaleta, 2000) and draining national economies (Olson, 2006; Vilà et al.”
State of the world's freshwater ecosystems: physical, chemical, and biological changes. (2011, background): “Some of the most detailed data regarding species imperilment is for North America and the United States.”
Restoration of a Forest Understory After the Removal of an Invasive Shrub, Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) (2004, background): “While seemingly initially expensive, the cost of eradicating and restoring native communities is often recovered in a short time (Zavaleta 2000).”
After biocontrol: assessing indirect effects of insect releases (2005, background): “Numerous estimates of Tamarix water use can be found in the literature (e.g., Shafroth et al., in press; Zavaleta, 2000), but close examination of individual studies reveals that eVects of Tamarix removal are likely to vary depending on the nature of the replacement vegetation and on the particular ”
Climate change increases risk of plant invasion in the Eastern United States (2009, background): “disturbance regimes (e.g., wildfire) (D’Antonio and Vitousek 1992; Zavaleta 2000 ).”