Managing the risk of biological invasions

Yiming Li; Fei-Hai Yu

doi:10.1016/j.isci.2023.108221

Managing the risk of biological invasions

iScience. 2023 Oct 17;26(11):108221. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108221. eCollection 2023 Nov 17.

Authors

Yiming Li^{1

2}, Fei-Hai Yu³

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China.
² Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang, Beijing 100101, China.
³ Institute of Wetland Ecology & Clone Ecology/Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou 318000, Zhejiang, China.

Abstract

The large environmental impacts and enormous economic costs caused by biological invasions provide a strong impetus for managing invasion risks. Understanding the factors driving the invasion process and their consequences will raise awareness of invasions among the general public, stakeholders, and policymakers and inform effective management strategies. The identification of priority species and introduction pathways and sites and the development of national capabilities for prevention and preparedness, early detection, monitoring, and rapid response will reduce the impacts of invasive species in terms of effectiveness and cost efficiency.

Keywords: Ecology; Evolutionary biology; Nature conservation.

Publication types

Review