Impacts of Invasive Species on Ecosystem Services

Charles, Heather; Dukes, Jeffrey S.

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“…invasive species | ecosystem service | eutrophication | Bythotrephes | Daphnia D espite growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services (1) and the harm caused to ecosystems by invasive species (2,3), linkages between species invasions and ecosystem services are rarely made (4)(5)(6). Investments in the prevention of species invasions may sustain ecosystem services.…”

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Invasive species triggers a massive loss of ecosystem services through a trophic cascade

Walsh

Carpenter

Zanden

2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Despite growing recognition of the importance of ecosystem services and the economic and ecological harm caused by invasive species, linkages between invasions, changes in ecosystem functioning, and in turn, provisioning of ecosystem services remain poorly documented and poorly understood. We evaluate the economic impacts of an invasion that cascaded through a food web to cause substantial declines in water clarity, a valued ecosystem service. The predatory zooplankton, the spiny water flea (Bythotrephes longimanus), invaded the Laurentian Great Lakes in the 1980s and has subsequently undergone secondary spread to inland lakes, including Lake Mendota (Wisconsin), in 2009. In Lake Mendota, Bythotrephes has reached unparalleled densities compared with in other lakes, decreasing biomass of the grazer Daphnia pulicaria and causing a decline in water clarity of nearly 1 m. Time series modeling revealed that the loss in water clarity,

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Invasive species triggers a massive loss of ecosystem services through a trophic cascade

Walsh

Carpenter

Zanden

2016

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…While only about 10% of all introduced plant species become established as invasive populations (Barbier 2001), those that do can have severe negative impacts (Pimentel 2009, Charles andDukes 2007) . For example, in non-agricultural terrestrial systems, invasive plants can harm or endanger native plant species, alter habitats of associated wildlife, modify nutrient cycles, and cause soil erosion.…”

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“…For example, in non-agricultural terrestrial systems, invasive plants can harm or endanger native plant species, alter habitats of associated wildlife, modify nutrient cycles, and cause soil erosion. In aquatic systems, invasive plants can diminish habitat, endanger native plants and wildlife, and alter hydrology and nutrient cycling (Perrings 2001, Charles andDukes 2007). In addition to these ecological impacts, invasive plants can also cause heavy economic losses.…”

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Divergent responses of cryptic invasive watermilfoil to treatment with auxinic herbicides in a large Michigan lake

Parks

McNair

Hausler³

et al. 2016

Lake and Reservoir Management

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Parks, Syndell R., "Divergent responses of cryptic invasive watermilfoil to treatment with auxinic herbicides in a large Michigan Lake" (2015). Masters Theses. identification. I am also grateful to the Houghton Lake Improvement Board to allowing Houghton Lake to be used for this study as well as funding the data analysis. Funding for this study was also provided by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation for the additional funding for this study. 4 PrefaceVegetation mapping surveys are an important part of managing invasive aquatic plants.They are used both to characterize the nature and extent of an infestation before designing a management plan and to assess the efficacy of management actions after implementation. This thesis research was conducted on the premise that incorporating genetics into vegetation mapping will improve the design and assessment of invasive aquatic plant control strategies.This idea began with anecdotal reports that invasive watermilfoil had begun to show variation in its response to common herbicide treatments and the discovery, based on genetic studies, that hybrids between Eurasian and northern watermilfoil were present in many treated lakes. Subsequent laboratory studies showed that hybrid watermilfoil were generally less sensitive to the common herbicide 2,4-D. Yet hybrids exhibit so much variation in morphology that they are impossible to visually distinguish from pure Eurasian and northern watermilfoil.Based on these results, we concluded that managed watermilfoil needed to be accurately identified so that hybrids would be detected, if present, and that this could only be done using genetic methods. Currently, however, genetic methods are rarely used when evaluating watermilfoil infestations in managed lakes.Out of the belief that genetic identifications should become an integral part of watermilfoil management, my adviser Dr. Ryan Thum, entrepreneur Linda Chamberlain, and I participated in the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps program (iCorps). The iCorps program is intended to help researchers and students begin to transfer their research into commercial products through the validation of its value with potential customers. For our 5 team, we needed to determine if managers saw value in using genetic identifications in watermilfoil assessment and treatment, and to determine why they don't use them already.During the program, we interviewed 78 people from 6 states, including state regulators who manage invasive plants and sign off on permits for management, environmental consultants who manage invasive plants on behalf of their customers, and riparian land owners who assess the initial need for management and often hire a consultant to develop and implement the strategy.From those interactions, we determined that most environmental managers did not feel confident that the information provided by genetically distinguishing hybrid from Eurasian watermilfoil would be worth the cost. Many felt that they could accurately identify hybrid watermilfoil visually and di...

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“…treatment of allergic reactions to pollen of an invasive plant, are also included (Born et al, 2005;Pimentel et al, 2005). The monetary value of the ecological damages caused by alien species are usually calculated based on the concept of ecosystem services (Binimelis et al, 2007;Born et al, 2005;Charles and Dukes, 2007), i.e., the loss of ecosystem services through biotic invasions is derived from biological impact research (see above) (Charles and Dukes, 2007). Estimates of total costs stemming from biotic invasions for countries such as the U.S.A., Canada, Australia or Germany are typically of the order of more than US$ 1 billion per year (Olson, 2007;Pimentel et al, 2005).…”

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“…For instance, the damages to landscape aesthetics or the recreation value of nature have been estimated (Binimelis et al, 2007;Charles and Dukes, 2007), or the role of invasive species for poor people and developing countries is considered (Drake and Keller, 2004;Perrings, 2005). In socioeconomic valuation it is particularly important to recognise that alien species can have both positive and negative roles for people, and that the valuation of an alien species is dynamic and may change with time and context (Binimelis et al, 2007).…”

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How to Achieve Effectiveness in Problem-Oriented Landscape Research: The Example of Research on Biotic Invasions

Kueffer¹,

Hadorn²

2008

Living Rev. Landscape Res.

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It is increasingly expected from environmental research such as landscape research that science directly contributes to the solving of pressing societal problems. However, despite increased efforts to direct research towards societal problems, it is not obvious if science has become more effective in supporting environmental problem-solving. We present in this article a framework that facilitates the analysis and design of problem-orientation in research fields. We then apply the proposed framework to a concrete example of a problem-oriented landscape research field -namely research on biotic invasions. Invasion research addresses the problem that some organisms, that have been introduced by humans to a new geographic area where they were previously not present, spread in the landscape and pose negative impacts.We argue that problem-oriented research is more than applied research. Besides research on specific questions it also encompasses boundary management, i.e., deliberations among experts and stakeholders on the framing of adequate research questions about processes, values and practices for effective problem-solving. We postulate that such research may assist problem-solving in three ways, by analysing causal relationships (systems knowledge), clarifying conflicts of interests and values (target knowledge), or contributing to the development of appropriate means for action (transformation knowledge).We show that over the past decades a broad range of different research approaches has emerged in the young field of invasion research in order to produce systems, target and transformation knowledge for invasive species management. Early research in the field was dominated by the development of systems knowledge, but increasingly the three knowledge forms are Boundary management in invasion research is mainly restricted to informal networks (communities of practice), while formal processes such as transdisciplinary research are scarce. We suggest that the paucity of structured and explicit boundary management processes will limit the future development of a more effective science for invasive species management. In particular, we envisage three obstacles that can only be removed through explicit boundary management. First, the existing theoretical frameworks are currently only partly able to integrate natural and social sciences research on the processes underlying invasions. Second, a clarification of the normative thinking about alien plant invasions is needed. Third, research on transformation knowledge has so far not fundamentally challenged the existing conceptual framing and institutional setup of invasive species management.

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Impacts of Invasive Species on Ecosystem Services

Cited by 269 publications

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Invasive species triggers a massive loss of ecosystem services through a trophic cascade

Invasive species triggers a massive loss of ecosystem services through a trophic cascade

Divergent responses of cryptic invasive watermilfoil to treatment with auxinic herbicides in a large Michigan lake

How to Achieve Effectiveness in Problem-Oriented Landscape Research: The Example of Research on Biotic Invasions

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