High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60077344:_____/21:00553261
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03405-6.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03405-6.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03405-6" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-021-03405-6</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
High and rising economic costs of biological invasions worldwide
Original language description
Biological invasions are responsible for substantial biodiversity declines as well as high economic losses to society and monetary expenditures associated with the management of these invasions(1,2). The InvaCost database has enabled the generation of a reliable, comprehensive, standardized and easily updatable synthesis of the monetary costs of biological invasions worldwide(3). Here we found that the total reported costs of invasions reached a minimum of US$1.288 trillion (2017 US dollars) over the past few decades (1970-2017), with an annual mean cost of US$26.8 billion. Moreover, we estimate that the annual mean cost could reach US$162.7 billion in 2017. These costs remain strongly underestimated and do not show any sign of slowing down, exhibiting a consistent threefold increase per decade. We show that the documented costs are widely distributed and have strong gaps at regional and taxonomic scales, with damage costs being an order of magnitude higher than management expenditures. Research approaches that document the costs of biological invasions need to be further improved. Nonetheless, our findings call for the implementation of consistent management actions and international policy agreements that aim to reduce the burden of invasive alien species.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10620 - Other biological topics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
592
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7855
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
571-585
UT code for WoS article
000635575100007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85103962120