Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

Helen E Roy^{1

2}, Aníbal Pauchard^{3

4}, Peter J Stoett⁵, Tanara Renard Truong⁶, Laura A Meyerson⁷, Sven Bacher⁸, Bella S Galil⁹, Philip E Hulme¹⁰, Tohru Ikeda¹¹, Sankaran Kavileveettil¹², Melodie A McGeoch¹³, Martin A Nuñez^{14

15}, Alejandro Ordonez¹⁶, Sebataolo J Rahlao^{17

18}, Evangelina Schwindt¹⁹, Hanno Seebens^{20

21}, Andy W Sheppard²², Vigdis Vandvik²³, Alla Aleksanyan²⁴, Michael Ansong²⁵, Tom August²⁶, Ryan Blanchard^{27

28}, Ernesto Brugnoli²⁹, John K Bukombe³⁰, Bridget Bwalya³¹, Chaeho Byun³², Morelia Camacho-Cervantes³³, Phillip Cassey³⁴, María L Castillo³⁵, Franck Courchamp³⁶, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz³⁷, Rafael Dudeque Zenni³⁸, Chika Egawa³⁹, Franz Essl⁴⁰, Georgi Fayvush⁴¹, Romina D Fernandez⁴², Miguel Fernandez^{43

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45}, Llewellyn C Foxcroft^{28

46}, Piero Genovesi^{28

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48}, Quentin J Groom⁴⁹, Ana Isabel González⁴⁸, Aveliina Helm⁵⁰, Ileana Herrera⁵¹, Ankila J Hiremath⁵², Patricia L Howard^{53

54}, Cang Hui^{55

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57}, Makihiko Ikegami⁵⁸, Emre Keskin^{59

60}, Asuka Koyama⁶¹, Stanislav Ksenofontov⁶², Bernd Lenzner⁴⁰, Tatsiana Lipinskaya⁶³, Julie L Lockwood⁶⁴, Dongang C Mangwa^{65

66}, Angeliki F Martinou^{67

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69}, Shana M McDermott⁷⁰, Carolina L Morales⁷¹, Jana Müllerová⁷², Ninad Avinash Mungi^{16

73}, Linus K Munishi⁷⁴, Henn Ojaveer^{75

76}, Shyama N Pagad⁷⁷, Nirmalie P K T S Pallewatta⁷⁸, Lora R Peacock⁷⁹, Esra Per⁸⁰, Jan Pergl³⁵, Cristina Preda⁸¹, Petr Pyšek^{35

82}, Rajesh K Rai⁸³, Anthony Ricciardi⁸⁴, David M Richardson²⁸, Sophie Riley⁸⁵, Betty J Rono^{86

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88}, Ellen Ryan-Colton⁸⁹, Hanieh Saeedi^{90

91}, Bharat B Shrestha⁹², Daniel Simberloff⁹³, Alifereti Tawake⁹⁴, Elena Tricarico⁹⁵, Sonia Vanderhoeven⁹⁶, Joana Vicente^{97

98

99}, Montserrat Vilà^{100

101}, Wycliffe Wanzala¹⁰², Victoria Werenkraut⁷¹, Olaf L F Weyl^{103

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105}, John R U Wilson^{28

106}, Rafael O Xavier^{107

108}, Sílvia R Ziller¹⁰⁹

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK. hele@ceh.ac.uk.
² Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK. hele@ceh.ac.uk.
³ Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
⁴ Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Concepción, Chile.
⁵ Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama, Japan.
⁷ University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
⁸ University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁹ The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
¹⁰ Bioprotection Aotearoa, Department of Pest-Management and Conservation, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
¹¹ Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
¹² Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India.
¹³ Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁴ INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina.
¹⁵ Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁶ Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁷ Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.
¹⁸ School of Life Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
¹⁹ Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, CONICET, Chubut, Argentina.
²⁰ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
²¹ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany.
²² CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
²³ Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Sustainable Area Management, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²⁴ Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia.
²⁵ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
²⁶ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
²⁷ Fynbos Node, South African Environmental Observation Network, Observatory, South Africa.
²⁸ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
²⁹ Oceanografía y Ecología Marina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³⁰ Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania.
³¹ University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
³² Department of Biological Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.
³³ Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
³⁴ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
³⁵ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
³⁶ Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, AgroPariTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
³⁷ Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
³⁸ Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
³⁹ Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁴⁰ Division of BioInvasions, Global Change and Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴¹ Department of Geobotany and Ecological Physiology of the Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia.
⁴² Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina.
⁴³ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany.
⁴⁴ Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
⁴⁵ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador.
⁴⁶ Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Skukuza, South Africa.
⁴⁷ Wildlife Service, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy.
⁴⁸ IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy.
⁴⁹ Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium.
⁵⁰ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁵¹ Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón, Ecuador.
⁵² Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, India.
⁵³ Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁴ University of Kent, Tonbridge, UK.
⁵⁵ African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵⁶ National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁵⁷ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁵⁸ National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁵⁹ Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory (eGL), Ankara University Agricultural Faculty Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶⁰ AgriGenomics Hub, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶¹ Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁶² ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA.
⁶³ Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
⁶⁴ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
⁶⁶ Voice of Nature, Buea, Cameroon.
⁶⁷ Laboratory of Vector Ecology and Applied Entomology, Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus, Akrotiri, Cyprus.
⁶⁸ Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶⁹ Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre/ Care-C, The Cyprus Institute, Athalassa Campus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁷⁰ Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷¹ Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Río Negro, Argentina.
⁷² Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí n. L., Ústí n. L., Czech Republic.
⁷³ Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India.
⁷⁴ The School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, The Nelson Mandela-African Institution of Science and Technology, Tengeru-Arusha, Tanzania.
⁷⁵ Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Pärnu, Estonia.
⁷⁶ National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
⁷⁷ IUCN, SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group; University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁷⁸ University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁷⁹ Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand.
⁸⁰ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye.
⁸¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, Constanta, Romania.
⁸² Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁸³ Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁸⁴ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁸⁵ University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸⁶ Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
⁸⁷ Department of Natural Resources, Egerton University, Njoro Campus, Njoro, Kenya.
⁸⁸ Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa.
⁸⁹ Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
⁹⁰ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Department of Marine Zoology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁹¹ Department 15 - Life Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁹² Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁹³ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
⁹⁴ Locally Managed Marine Area Network International Trust, Suva, Fiji.
⁹⁵ Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
⁹⁶ Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Service Public de Wallonie, Namur, Belgium.
⁹⁷ CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO Associate Laboratory, Vairão, Portugal.
⁹⁸ BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Vairão, Portugal.
⁹⁹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁰⁰ Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁰¹ Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁰² Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya.
¹⁰³ South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁴ DST-NRF Research Chair in Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁵ Centre for Invasion Biology, SAIAB, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁶ South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰⁷ Instituto de Biologia - Universidade de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰⁸ Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
¹⁰⁹ The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development, Florianópolis, Brazil.

PMID: 38831016
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02412-w

Review

Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

Helen E Roy et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2024 Jul.

. 2024 Jul;8(7):1216-1223.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02412-w. Epub 2024 Jun 3.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK. hele@ceh.ac.uk.
² Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK. hele@ceh.ac.uk.
³ Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
⁴ Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Concepción, Chile.
⁵ Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Hayama, Japan.
⁷ University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
⁸ University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁹ The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
¹⁰ Bioprotection Aotearoa, Department of Pest-Management and Conservation, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.
¹¹ Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
¹² Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, India.
¹³ Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
¹⁴ INIBIOMA, CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina.
¹⁵ Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
¹⁶ Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹⁷ Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa.
¹⁸ School of Life Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
¹⁹ Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, CONICET, Chubut, Argentina.
²⁰ Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
²¹ Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, Germany.
²² CSIRO, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
²³ Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Sustainable Area Management, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
²⁴ Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajyan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia.
²⁵ Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
²⁶ UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK.
²⁷ Fynbos Node, South African Environmental Observation Network, Observatory, South Africa.
²⁸ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
²⁹ Oceanografía y Ecología Marina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
³⁰ Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania.
³¹ University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
³² Department of Biological Sciences, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.
³³ Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
³⁴ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
³⁵ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
³⁶ Ecologie Systématique Evolution, CNRS, AgroPariTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
³⁷ Coventry University, Coventry, UK.
³⁸ Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
³⁹ Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁴⁰ Division of BioInvasions, Global Change and Macroecology, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴¹ Department of Geobotany and Ecological Physiology of the Institute of Botany after A. Takhtajan NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia.
⁴² Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina.
⁴³ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany.
⁴⁴ Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
⁴⁵ Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Quito, Ecuador.
⁴⁶ Scientific Services, South African National Parks, Skukuza, South Africa.
⁴⁷ Wildlife Service, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy.
⁴⁸ IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy.
⁴⁹ Meise Botanic Garden, Meise, Belgium.
⁵⁰ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁵¹ Escuela de Ciencias Ambientales, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Samborondón, Ecuador.
⁵² Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, India.
⁵³ Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁵⁴ University of Kent, Tonbridge, UK.
⁵⁵ African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵⁶ National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁵⁷ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
⁵⁸ National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁵⁹ Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory (eGL), Ankara University Agricultural Faculty Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶⁰ AgriGenomics Hub, Ankara, Turkey.
⁶¹ Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
⁶² ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA.
⁶³ Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus.
⁶⁴ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
⁶⁵ Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
⁶⁶ Voice of Nature, Buea, Cameroon.
⁶⁷ Laboratory of Vector Ecology and Applied Entomology, Joint Services Health Unit Cyprus, Akrotiri, Cyprus.
⁶⁸ Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁶⁹ Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre/ Care-C, The Cyprus Institute, Athalassa Campus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁷⁰ Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷¹ Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Río Negro, Argentina.
⁷² Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí n. L., Ústí n. L., Czech Republic.
⁷³ Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India.
⁷⁴ The School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, The Nelson Mandela-African Institution of Science and Technology, Tengeru-Arusha, Tanzania.
⁷⁵ Pärnu College, University of Tartu, Pärnu, Estonia.
⁷⁶ National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
⁷⁷ IUCN, SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group; University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁷⁸ University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
⁷⁹ Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, New Zealand.
⁸⁰ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye.
⁸¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, Constanta, Romania.
⁸² Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
⁸³ Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁸⁴ McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁸⁵ University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
⁸⁶ Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
⁸⁷ Department of Natural Resources, Egerton University, Njoro Campus, Njoro, Kenya.
⁸⁸ Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa.
⁸⁹ Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
⁹⁰ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Department of Marine Zoology, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁹¹ Department 15 - Life Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
⁹² Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁹³ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
⁹⁴ Locally Managed Marine Area Network International Trust, Suva, Fiji.
⁹⁵ Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
⁹⁶ Belgian Biodiversity Platform, Service Public de Wallonie, Namur, Belgium.
⁹⁷ CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO Associate Laboratory, Vairão, Portugal.
⁹⁸ BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Vairão, Portugal.
⁹⁹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
¹⁰⁰ Estación Biológica de Doñana, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁰¹ Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, University of Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁰² Maasai Mara University, Narok, Kenya.
¹⁰³ South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁴ DST-NRF Research Chair in Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁵ Centre for Invasion Biology, SAIAB, Makhanda, South Africa.
¹⁰⁶ South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Cape Town, South Africa.
¹⁰⁷ Instituto de Biologia - Universidade de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
¹⁰⁸ Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Brazil.
¹⁰⁹ The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development, Florianópolis, Brazil.

PMID: 38831016
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02412-w

Abstract

Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and governance challenges of biological invasions. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and Their Control (hereafter 'IPBES invasive alien species assessment') drew on more than 13,000 scientific publications and reports in 15 languages as well as Indigenous and local knowledge on all taxa, ecosystems and regions across the globe. Therefore, it provides unequivocal evidence of the major and growing threat of invasive alien species alongside ambitious but realistic approaches to manage biological invasions. The extent of the threat and impacts has been recognized by the 143 member states of IPBES who approved the summary for policymakers of this assessment. Here, the authors of the IPBES assessment outline the main findings of the IPBES invasive alien species assessment and highlight the urgency to act now.

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