Should Biological Invasions Be Managed as Natural Disasters?

Ricciardi, Anthony; Palmer, Michelle E.; Yan, Norman D.

doi:10.1525/bio.2011.61.4.11

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“…The annual 69 economic impact of invasive species has been estimated at over 100 billion 70 dollars just within the USA (NRC, 2002), an order of magnitude higher than 71 those caused by all natural disasters put together (Ricciardi et al, 2011); 72 some authors go as far as to claim that the economic impact of invasive 73 species is incalculable (Mack et al, 2000).…”

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Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

Rocchini

Garzón‐López

Marcantonio

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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Anticipating species distributions in space and time is necessary for effective biodiversity conservation and for prioritising management interventions. This is especially true when considering invasive species. In such a case, anticipating their spread is important to effectively plan management actions. However, considering uncertainty in the output of species distribution models is critical for correctly interpreting results and avoiding inappropriate decision-making. In particular, when dealing with species inventories,and avoiding inappropriate decision-making. In particular, when dealing with species inventories, the bias resulting from sampling effort may lead to an over- or under-estimation of the local density of occurrences of a species. In this paper we propose an innovative method to i) map sampling effort bias using cartogram models and ii) explicitly consider such uncertainty in the modeling procedure under a Bayesian framework, which allows the integration of multilevel input data with prior information to improve the anticipation of species distributions

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Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

Rocchini

Garzón‐López

Marcantonio

et al. 2017

Science of The Total Environment

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“…This lack of cohesion at the federal level is, for the Swedish case, mirrored by the lack of strong EU level regulation on IAS, as Sweden cannot unilaterally regulate risks related to movement of goods and services. Inherent features of IAS (being generally unpredictable, having impacts spread among many stakeholders, being persistent and extremely difficult to eliminate once established) [58], may also constitute some explanatory factors why IAS have so far not gained high attention despite the ecological and socio-economic threats they pose. However, on issues that Sweden and Ontario have been able to act on independently (such as domestic pests in Sweden, or the establishment of early warning systems), improved monitoring coordination has been developed.…”

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Preparing for and Responding to Disturbance: Examples from the Forest Sector in Sweden and Canada

Keskitalo

Klenk

Bullock

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Forests

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Abstract:Coping or adaptation following large-scale disturbance may depend on the political system and its preparedness and policy development in relation to risks. Adaptive or foresight planning is necessary in order to account and plan for potential risks that may increase or take place concurrently with climate change. Forests constitute relevant examples of large-scale renewable resource systems that have been directly affected by recent environmental and social changes, and where different levels of management may influence each other. This article views disturbances in the forest sectors of Sweden and Canada, two large forest nations with comparable forestry experiences, in order to elucidate the preparedness and existing responses to multiple potential stresses. The article concludes that the two countries are exposed to stresses that indicate the importance of the governing and institutional system particularly with regard to multi-level systems including federal and EU levels. While economic change largely results in privatization of risk onto individual companies and their economic resources (in Canada coupled with a contestation of institutional systems and equity in these), storm and pest outbreaks in particular OPEN ACCESS Forests 2011, 2 506 challenge institutional capacities at administrative levels, within the context provided by governance and tenure systems.

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“…The same is true for emerging pathogens: a current example is chytridiomycosis which is threatening amphibians worldwide (Pounds et al 2006). Compared to biological invasions and emerging pathogens, effects of GMOs and synthetic organisms on biodiversity have been much less thoroughly investigated (Ricciardi et al 2011). Although such studies do exist (e.g., Chambers et al 2010), there are too few to allow for general conclusions.…”

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Novel Organisms: Comparing Invasive Species, GMOs, and Emerging Pathogens

Jeschke

Keesing

Ostfeld

2013

AMBIO

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Invasive species, range-expanding species, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), synthetic organisms, and emerging pathogens increasingly affect the human environment. We propose a framework that allows comparison of consecutive stages that such novel organisms go through. The framework provides a common terminology for novel organisms, facilitating knowledge exchange among researchers, managers, and policy makers that work on, or have to make effective decisions about, novel organisms. The framework also indicates that knowledge about the causes and consequences of stage transitions for the better studied novel organisms, such as invasive species, can be transferred to more poorly studied ones, such as GMOs and emerging pathogens. Finally, the framework advances understanding of how climate change can affect the establishment, spread, and impacts of novel organisms, and how biodiversity affects, and is affected by, novel organisms.

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Should Biological Invasions Be Managed as Natural Disasters?

Cited by 99 publications

References 36 publications

Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

Anticipating species distributions: Handling sampling effort bias under a Bayesian framework

Preparing for and Responding to Disturbance: Examples from the Forest Sector in Sweden and Canada

Novel Organisms: Comparing Invasive Species, GMOs, and Emerging Pathogens

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