More than ‘‘100 worst’’ alien species in Europe
‘‘One hundred worst’’ lists of alien species of the greatest concern proved useful for raising awareness of the risks and impacts of biological invasions amongst the general public, politicians and stakeholders. All lists so far have been based on expert opinion and primarily aimed at representative...
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ftunivbern:oai:boris.unibe.ch:116200 2023-08-20T04:05:40+02:00 More than ‘‘100 worst’’ alien species in Europe Nentwig, Wolfgang Bacher, Sven Kumschick, Sabrina Pysek, P Vila, M 2018 application/pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/116200/1/Nentwig%20et%20al%20Biol%20Invasions.pdf https://boris.unibe.ch/116200/ eng eng Springer https://boris.unibe.ch/116200/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Nentwig, Wolfgang; Bacher, Sven; Kumschick, Sabrina; Pysek, P; Vila, M (2018). More than ‘‘100 worst’’ alien species in Europe. Biological invasions, 20(6), pp. 1611-1621. Springer 10.1007/s10530-017-1651-6 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1651-6> 570 Life sciences biology 590 Animals (Zoology) 580 Plants (Botany) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion PeerReviewed 2018 ftunivbern https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1651-6 2023-07-31T21:44:08Z ‘‘One hundred worst’’ lists of alien species of the greatest concern proved useful for raising awareness of the risks and impacts of biological invasions amongst the general public, politicians and stakeholders. All lists so far have been based on expert opinion and primarily aimed at representativeness of the taxonomic and habitat diversity rather than at quantifying the harm the alien species cause. We used the generic impact scoring system (GISS) to rank 486 alien species established in Europe from a wide range of taxonomic groups to identify those with the highest environmental and socioeconomic impact. GISS assigns 12 categories of impact, each quantified on a scale from 0 (no impact detectable) to 5 (the highest impact possible). We ranked species by their total sum of scores and by the number of the highest impact scores. We also compared the listing based on GISS with other expert-based lists of the ‘‘worst’’ invaders.We propose a list of 149 alien species, comprising 54 plants, 49 invertebrates, 40 vertebrates and 6 fungi. Among the highest ranking species are one bird (Branta canadensis), four mammals (Rattus norvegicus, Ondatra zibethicus, Cervus nippon, Muntiacus reevesi), one crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), one mite Article in Journal/Newspaper Branta canadensis Mite BORIS (Bern Open Repository and Information System, University of Bern) Biological Invasions 20 6 1611 1621 |
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‘‘One hundred worst’’ lists of alien species of the greatest concern proved useful for raising awareness of the risks and impacts of biological invasions amongst the general public, politicians and stakeholders. All lists so far have been based on expert opinion and primarily aimed at representativeness of the taxonomic and habitat diversity rather than at quantifying the harm the alien species cause. We used the generic impact scoring system (GISS) to rank 486 alien species established in Europe from a wide range of taxonomic groups to identify those with the highest environmental and socioeconomic impact. GISS assigns 12 categories of impact, each quantified on a scale from 0 (no impact detectable) to 5 (the highest impact possible). We ranked species by their total sum of scores and by the number of the highest impact scores. We also compared the listing based on GISS with other expert-based lists of the ‘‘worst’’ invaders.We propose a list of 149 alien species, comprising 54 plants, 49 invertebrates, 40 vertebrates and 6 fungi. Among the highest ranking species are one bird (Branta canadensis), four mammals (Rattus norvegicus, Ondatra zibethicus, Cervus nippon, Muntiacus reevesi), one crayfish (Procambarus clarkii), one mite |
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