Journal
BIOSCIENCE
Volume 65, Issue 8, Pages 769-782Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv082
Keywords
alien species; impact; management; propagule pressure; temporal trends
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Funding
- Austrian Climate Research Program (Spec-Adapt) [KR11AC0K00355]
- ERA-Net BiodivERsA (project WhoIsNext)
- Austrian Science Foundation FWF
- German VW-Foundation
- ERA-Net BiodivERsA (project FFII)
- German Research Foundation DFG [JE 288/7-1]
- DFG [JE 288/9-1]
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
- Working for Water programme
- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Drakenstein Trust
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Czech Academy of Sciences [RVO 67985939]
- Czech Science Foundation [14-36079G, P504/11/1028]
- Czech Academy of Sciences
- Severo Ochoa Program for Centres of Excellence in R+D+I [SEV-2012-0262]
- NERC [ceh020002, ceh020004, ceh020009] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [ceh020002, ceh020009, ceh020004] Funding Source: researchfish
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Substantial progress has been made in understanding how pathways underlie and mediate biological invasions. However, key features of their role in invasions remain poorly understood, available knowledge is widely scattered, and major frontiers in research and management are insufficiently characterized. We review the state of the art, highlight recent advances, identify pitfalls and constraints, and discuss major challenges in four broad fields of pathway research and management: pathway classification, application of pathway information, management response, and management impact. We present approaches to describe and quantify pathway attributes (e.g., spatiotemporal changes, proxies of introduction effort, environmental and socioeconomic contexts) and how they interact with species traits and regional characteristics. We also provide recommendations for a research agenda with particular focus on emerging (or neglected) research questions and present new analytical tools in the context of pathway research and management.
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