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NATURE
卷 592, 期 7855, 页码 571-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03405-6
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- French National Research Agency [ANR-14-CE02-0021]
- BNP-Paribas Foundation
- Czech Academy of Sciences
The study reveals that biological invasions have caused significant economic losses, with costs estimated to be continuously increasing and in need of further research improvement. It calls for consistent management actions and international policy agreements to reduce the burden of invasive alien species.
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.
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