Document of bibliographic reference 259398
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- Journal article
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- Title
- A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions
- Abstract
- Managing biological invasions relies on good global coverage of species distributions. Accurate information on alien species distributions, obtained from international policy and cross-border co-operation, is required to evaluate trans-boundary and trading partnership risks. However, a standardized approach for systematically monitoring alien species and tracking biological invasions is still lacking. This Perspective presents a vision for global observation and monitoring of biological invasions. We show how the architecture for tracking biological invasions is provided by a minimum information set of Essential Variables, global collaboration on data sharing and infrastructure, and strategic contributions by countries. We show how this novel, synthetic approach to an observation system for alien species provides a tangible and attainable solution to delivering the information needed to slow the rate of new incursions and reduce the impacts of invaders. We identify three Essential Variables for Invasion Monitoring; alien species occurrence, species alien status and alien species impact. We outline how delivery of this minimum information set by joint, complementary contributions from countries and global community initiatives is possible. Country contributions are made feasible using a modular approach where all countries are able to participate and strategically build their contributions to a global information set over time. The vision we outline will deliver wide-ranging benefits to countries and international efforts to slow the rate of biological invasions and minimize their environmental impacts. These benefits will accrue over time as global coverage and information on alien species increases.
- WebOfScience code
- https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000410011900007
- Bibliographic citation
- Latombe, G.; Pysek, P.; Jeschke, J.M.; Blackburn, T.M.; Bacher, S.; Capinha, C.; Costello, M.J.; Fernández, M.; Gregory, R.D.; Hobern, D.; Hui, C.; Jetz, W.; Kumschick, S.; McGrannachan, C.; Pergl, J.; Roy, H.E.; Scalera, R.; Squires, Z.E.; Wilson, J.R.U.; Winter, M.; Genovesi, P.; McGeoch, M.A. (2017). A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions. Biol. Conserv. 213(Part B): 295-308. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.013
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- Marine
- Is peer reviewed
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- Access rights
- open access
- Is accessible for free
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Authors
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- Guillaume Latombe
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- Petr Pysek
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- Jonathan Jeschke
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- Tim Blackburn
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- Sven Bacher
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- César Capinha
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- Mark Costello
- Identifier
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2362-0328
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- Miguel Fernández
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- Richard Gregory
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- Donald Hobern
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- Cang Hui
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- Walter Jetz
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- Sabrina Kumschick
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- Chris McGrannachan
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- Jan Pergl
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- Helen Roy
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- Riccardo Scalera
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- Zoe Squires
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- John Wilson
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- Marten Winter
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- Piero Genovesi
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- Melodie McGeoch
thesaurus terms
- term
- Alien species (term code: 276 - defined in term set: ASFA Thesaurus List)
- Occurrence (term code: 78368 - defined in term set: CSA Technology Research Database Master Thesaurus)