Hitting the right target: taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions

By Petr Pyšek, P. Hulme, L. Meyerson, Gideon F. Smith, J. Boatwright, N. Crouch, E. Figueiredo, L. Foxcroft, V. Jarošı́k, D. Richardson and 2 more. AoB Plants, 2013

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Taxonomic resources are essential for the effective management of invasive plants because biosecurity strategies, legislation dealing with invasive species, quarantine, weed surveillance and monitoring all depend on accurate and rapid identification of non-native taxa, and incorrect identifications can impede ecological studies. On the other hand, biological invasions have provided important tests of basic theories about species concepts. Modern taxonomy therefore needs to integrate both classical and new concepts and approaches to improve the accuracy of species identification and further refine taxonomic classification at the level of populations and genotypes in the field and laboratory.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Molecular Biology

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Petr Pyšek
2. D. Richardson
3. Jonathan M. Jeschke
4. P. Hulme
5. Daniel Simberloff
6. M. Vilà
7. Jan Pergl
8. A. Ricciardi

In Insect Science

1. Petr Pyšek
2. D. Richardson
3. Jan Pergl
4. John R. U. Wilson
5. P. Hulme
6. M. Vilà
7. Jonathan M. Jeschke
8. S. Bacher

In Molecular Biology

1. M. Vilà
2. D. Richardson
3. G. Ruiz
4. James T. Carlton
5. D. Aldridge
6. Helen E. Roy
7. Petr Pyšek
8. P. Hulme

Citations in the corpus

• A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions (2017, background): “…in information and capacity and difficulties of keeping most inventories regularly updated, along with taxonomic gaps, have impeded globally harmonized monitoring of invasions (Bellard and Jeschke, 2016; Canhos et al., 2015; Jeschke et al., 2012; McGeoch et al., 2010; Pyšek et al., 2008, 2013).”
• Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, background): “inappropriate and ineffective legislation, management, and policy (Pyšek et al. 2013).”