Invasion costs, impacts, and human agency: response to Sagoff 2020

Ross N Cuthbert; Sven Bacher; Tim M Blackburn; Elizabeta Briski; Christophe Diagne; Jaimie T A Dick; Franz Essl; Piero Genovesi; Phillip J Haubrock; Guillaume Latombe; Bernd Lenzner; Yves Meinard; Aníbal Pauchard; Petr Pyšek; Anthony Ricciardi; David M Richardson; James C Russell; Daniel Simberloff; Franck Courchamp

doi:10.1111/cobi.13592

Invasion costs, impacts, and human agency: response to Sagoff 2020

Conserv Biol. 2020 Dec;34(6):1579-1582. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13592. Epub 2020 Jul 30.

Authors

Ross N Cuthbert^{1

2}, Sven Bacher³, Tim M Blackburn^{4

5}, Elizabeta Briski¹, Christophe Diagne⁶, Jaimie T A Dick², Franz Essl⁷, Piero Genovesi⁸, Phillip J Haubrock^{9

10}, Guillaume Latombe⁷, Bernd Lenzner⁷, Yves Meinard¹¹, Aníbal Pauchard^{12

13}, Petr Pyšek^{14

15}, Anthony Ricciardi¹⁶, David M Richardson¹⁷, James C Russell¹⁸, Daniel Simberloff¹⁹, Franck Courchamp⁶

Affiliations

¹ GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, Kiel, 24105, Germany.
² School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 5DL, U.K.
³ Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 10, Fribourg, 1700, Switzerland.
⁴ Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, U.K.
⁵ Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, U.K.
⁶ CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, 91405, France.
⁷ Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, 1030, Austria.
⁸ Institute for Environmental Protection and Research ISPRA, and Chair IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome, Italy.
⁹ Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, 60325, Germany.
¹⁰ Faculty of Fisheries and Protection of Waters, South Bohemian Research Center of Aquaculture and Biodiversity of Hydrocenoses, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Zátiší 728/II, Vodňany, 389 25, Czech Republic.
¹¹ Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Université Paris-Dauphine, CNRS, UMR [7243], Lamcade, Place Lattre de Tassigny, Paris, 75016, France.
¹² Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile.
¹³ Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.
¹⁴ Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, CZ-252 43, Czech Republic.
¹⁵ Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, Prague, CZ-128 44, Czech Republic.
¹⁶ Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 0C4, Canada.
¹⁷ Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
¹⁸ School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
¹⁹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, 1416 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN, 37996, U.S.A.

PMID: 33216401
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13592

Abstract

Article impact statement: In an era of profound biodiversity crisis, invasion costs, invader impacts, and human agency should not be dismissed.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Biodiversity*
Biology
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Humans