Unveiling the hidden economic toll of biological invasions in the European Union.
InvaCost
Invasion costs
Missing data
Monetary impacts
Projection
Temporal trends
Journal
Environmental sciences Europe
ISSN: 2190-4707
Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Eur
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101571842
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2023
2023
Historique:
received:
08
03
2023
accepted:
19
05
2023
medline:
16
6
2023
pubmed:
16
6
2023
entrez:
16
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Biological 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. We used the latest available cost data in Our 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. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12302-023-00750-3.
Sections du résumé
Background
UNASSIGNED
Biological 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.
Results
UNASSIGNED
We used the latest available cost data in
Conclusions
UNASSIGNED
Our 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.
Supplementary Information
UNASSIGNED
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12302-023-00750-3.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37325080
doi: 10.1186/s12302-023-00750-3
pii: 750
pmc: PMC10249565
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
43Informations de copyright
© The Author(s) 2023.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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