The challenge of managing threatened invasive species at a continental scale

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14165" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14165</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14165" target="_blank" >10.1111/cobi.14165</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The challenge of managing threatened invasive species at a continental scale

Original language description

The European Union&apos;s (EU) environmental legislation establishes common measures to prevent the entry and spread of invasive non-native species and to minimize their impacts. However, species that are native to at least one member state but non-native and potentially invasive in others (NPIS) are in limbo because they are neither legally regulated at the EU level nor in most member states. We used the Communication and Information Resource Centre for Administrations, Businesses and Citizens (CIRCABC) raw data on NPIS (317 taxa) to analyze their distribution across the EU and identify which biogeographical regions are the main sources of invasions. We additionally evaluated the conservation challenge posed by NPIS that are threatened within their native ranges. We performed a pairwise analysis summarizing the number of species that are native to a given member state but non-native to another and vice versa. Although distribution patterns of NPIS varied across taxa groups, overall, southern and central EU countries were both donors and recipients of NPIS. Eastern countries were mainly a source, and western and northern countries mostly received NPIS. Around 27% of NPIS were threatened in some of their EU native ranges, which is a challenge for conservation and management because some of them have serious negative effects on European biodiversity, but hitherto remain outside the scope of the EU regulation of invasive non-native species. This highlights an unresolved paradox because efforts to manage species as invasive conflict with efforts to protect them as threatened within the same territory.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Conservation Biology

ISSN

0888-8892

e-ISSN

1523-1739

Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001048185000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85168007134