Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union

Environmental Sciences Europe

Research

Philip E. Hulme¹  Anna J. Turbelin¹  Danish A. Ahmed²  Phillip J. Haubrock³  Chunlong Liu⁴  Ali Serhan Tarkan⁵  Morgane Henry⁶  Brian Leung⁶  Melina Kourantidou⁷  Elena Angulo⁸  Antonín Kouba⁹  Ismael Soto⁹  Paride Balzani⁹  Francisco J. Oficialdegui⁹  Elizabeta Briski^1,10  Corey J. A. Bradshaw^1,11  Rafael L. Macêdo^1,12  Ross N. Cuthbert^1,13  Thomas W. Bodey^1,14  David Renault^1,15  Franck Courchamp^1,16 

[1] Bioprotection Aotearoa, Lincoln University, 7647, Lincoln Canterbury, New Zealand;Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally, Kuwait;Center for Applied Mathematics and Bioinformatics, Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Hawally, Kuwait;Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25, Vodňany, Czech Republic;Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany;College of Fisheries, Ocean University of China, 266003, Qingdao, China;Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 430072, Wuhan, China;Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000, Muğla, Turkey;Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset, UK;Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada;Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Degnevej 14, 6705, Esbjerg Ø, Denmark;UMR 6308, AMURE, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, IUEM, rue Dumont d’Urville, 29280, Plouzané, France;Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 02543, Woods Hole, MA, USA;Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Avda. Americo Vespucio 26, 41092, Seville, Spain;Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, South Bohemian Research Centre of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, Zátiší 728/II, 389 25, Vodňany, Czech Republic;GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105, Kiel, Germany;Global Ecology

[2]  Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, 5001, Adelaide, SA, Australia;ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (EpicAustralia.org.au), Wollongong, NSW, Australia;Graduate Program in Conservation and Ecotourism, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Neotropical Limnology Group (NEL), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Av. Pasteur, 458, 22290-240, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil;Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, BT9 5DL, Belfast, UK;School of Biological Sciences, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, Aberdeen, UK;University of Rennes, CNRS, ECOBIO (Ecosystèmes, Biodiversité, Evolution), UMR, 6553, Rennes, France;Institut Universitaire de France, 1 rue Descartes, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France;Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Gif sur Yvette, France;

关键词: Projection;    InvaCost;    Monetary impacts;    Invasion costs;    Temporal trends;    Missing data;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12302-023-00750-3

 received in 2023-03-08, accepted in 2023-05-19,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundBiological invasions threaten the functioning of ecosystems, biodiversity, and human well-being by degrading ecosystem services and eliciting massive economic costs. The European Union has historically been a hub for cultural development and global trade, and thus, has extensive opportunities for the introduction and spread of alien species. While reported costs of biological invasions to some member states have been recently assessed, ongoing knowledge gaps in taxonomic and spatio-temporal data suggest that these costs were considerably underestimated.ResultsWe used the latest available cost data in InvaCost (v4.1)—the most comprehensive database on the costs of biological invasions—to assess the magnitude of this underestimation within the European Union via projections of current and future invasion costs. We used macroeconomic scaling and temporal modelling approaches to project available cost information over gaps in taxa, space, and time, thereby producing a more complete estimate for the European Union economy. We identified that only 259 out of 13,331 (~ 1%) known invasive alien species have reported costs in the European Union. Using a conservative subset of highly reliable, observed, country-level cost entries from 49 species (totalling US$4.7 billion; 2017 value), combined with the establishment data of alien species within European Union member states, we projected unreported cost data for all member states.ConclusionsOur corrected estimate of observed costs was potentially 501% higher (US$28.0 billion) than currently recorded. Using future projections of current estimates, we also identified a substantial increase in costs and costly species (US$148.2 billion) by 2040. We urge that cost reporting be improved to clarify the economic impacts of greatest concern, concomitant with coordinated international action to prevent and mitigate the impacts of invasive alien species in the European Union and globally.

【 授权许可】

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