Food for thought: risks of non-native species transfer to the Antarctic region with fresh produce

• Published in: Biological Conservation
• Main Authors: Hughes, Kevin A., Lee, Jennifer E., Tsujimoto, Megumu, Imura, Satoshi, Bergstrom, Dana M., Ware, Chris, Lebouvier, Marc, Huiskes, Ad H.L., Gremmen, Niek J.M., Frenot, Yves, Bridge, Paul D., Chown, Steven L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Rothera; Rothera Research Station; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/15017/; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320711000954

To understand fully the risk of biological invasions, it is necessary to quantify propagule pressure along all introduction pathways. In the Antarctic region, importation of fresh produce is a potentially high risk, but as yet unquantified pathway. To address this knowledge gap, >11,250 fruit and...