Monitoring Trends in Biological Invasion, its Impact and Policy Responses

Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gap between Global Commitment and Local Action

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 138-158

  Genovesi, Piero ^a   Butchart, Stuart H M ^b   Mcgeoch, Melodie A ^c   Roy, David B ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^b BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological invasion; Ecosystem; Invasion indicators; Invasive alien species (IAS); Policy responses; Red list index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887222353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118490747.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

References (51)

1. Baillie, J.E.M., Collen, B., Amin, R., et al. (2008) Toward monitoring global biodiversity. Conservation Letters, 1, 18-26.
2. BirdLife International (2008a) Critically Endangered Birds:AGlobalAudit. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
3. BirdLife International (2008b) State of the World's Birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge, UK.
4. Butchart, S.H.M. (2008) Red List Indices tomeasure the sustainability of species use and impacts of invasive alien species. Bird Conservation International, 18, 245-262.
5. Butchart, S.H.M., Stattersfield, A.J., and Collar, N.J. (2006) How many bird extinctions have we prevented? Oryx, 40, 266-278.
6. Butchart, S.H., Walpole, M., Collen, B., et al. (2010) Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines. Science, 328, 1164-1168.
7. Carlton, J.T. (1996) Biological invasions and cryptogenic species. Ecology, 77, 1653-1655.
8. Carlton, J.T. (2008) The inviolate sea? A thousand years of human-mediated global interchange of shore and shelf biota. Abstract of invited keynote lecturer. Symposium on ''Fifty years of invasion ecology - the legacy of Charles Elton'', 12-14 November 2008, Stellenbosch.
9. Clavero, M. and Garcìa-Berthou, E. (2005) Invasive species are a leading cause of animal extinctions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20, 110.
10. Costello, C.J. and Solow, A.R. (2003) On the pattern of discovery of introduced species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 100, 3321-3323.
11. Crooks, J.A. (2005) Lag times and exotic species: the ecology and management of biological invasions in slow-motion. Ecoscience, 12, 316-329.
12. DAISIE (2009) Handbook of Alien Species in Europe. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
13. Donlan, C.J. and Wilcox, C. (2008) Diversity, invasive species and extinctions in insular ecosystems. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 1114-1123.
14. ECCHM (European Biodiversity Clearing House Mechanism) (2005) Biodiversity monitoring and indicators. SEBI2010 Expert Group 5 - invasive species. Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Available at: biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/information/indicator/. Accessed July 2006.
15. EEA (2003) Europe's water: An indicator-based assessment. EEA Topic Report No 1/2003. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen. Available at: www.eea.europa.eu/.
16. EEA (2009a) Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target. EEA Report 4/2009. European Environment Agency, 52 pp.
17. EEA (2009b) Progress towards the European 2010 biodiversity target - Indicator fact sheets. EEA Technical Report No 05/2009. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen. Available at: www.eea.europa.eu/publications/progress-towards-the-european-2010-biodiv ersitytarget-indicator-fact-sheets/.
18. G8 (2009) Carta di Siracusa on Biodiversity, adopted by the G8 Environment ministers at their meeting in Siracusa, 22-24 April 2009. Available at: www.g8.utoronto.ca/environment /env090424-biodiversity.pdf. Accessed 9 August 2009.
19. Galil, B.S. (2009) Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean sea. Biological Invasions, 11, 359-372.
20. Genovesi, P. (2007) Limits and potentialities of eradication as a tool for addressing biological invasions. In: Nentwig, W. (ed.), Biological Invasions. Ecological Studies, vol. 193, pp. 385-400.
21. Genovesi, P., Bacher, S., Kobelt,M., Pascal,M., and Scalera, R. (2009) Alienmammals of Europe. In: DAISIE (ed.), The Handbook of Alien Species in Europe. Springer, Berlin.
22. HeinzCenter (2002) The State of theNation'sEcosystems.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Available from: http://www.heinzctr.org/Ecosystem_Management.html. Accessed July 2006.
23. Hilton-Taylor, C., Pollock, C., Chanson, J., Butchart, S.H.M., Oldfield, T. and Katariya, V. (2009) Status of the world's species. In: Vié, J.-C. Hilton-Taylor, C., and Stuart, S.N. (eds), The 2008 Review of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, pp. 15-42.
24. Howald, G., Donlan, C.J., Galván, J.-P., et al. (2008) Invasive rodent eradication on islands. Conservation Biology, 21, 1258-1268.
25. Hulme, P.E. (2007) Biological invasions in Europe: drivers, pressures, states, impacts and responses. In: Hester, R. and Harrison, R.M. (eds). Biodiversity under Threat: Issues in Environmental Science and Technology. Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 25:56-80.
26. Hulme, P.E., Bacher, S., Kenis, M., et al. (2008) Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework to better integrate pathways into policy. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 403-414.
27. IUCN (2001) IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Species Survival Commission, IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK.
28. IUCN (2010) Guidelines for using the IUCN Red List categories and criteria. Available at: www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-and-criteria/2001-cat egoriescriteria.
29. Jeschke, J.M. and Genovesi, P. (2011) Do biodiversity and human impact influence the introduction or establishment of alien mammals? Oikos, 120, 57-64.
30. Kettunen, M., Genovesi, P., Gollasch, S., Pagad, S., and Starfinger, U. (2009) Technical support to EU strategy on invasive alien species (IAS). Assessment of the impacts of IAS in Europe and the EU. Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Brussels.
31. Leprieur, F., Brosse, S., García-Berthou, E., Oberdorff, T., Olden, J.D., and Townsend, C.R. (2009) Scientific uncertainty and the assessment of risks posed by non-native freshwater fishes. Fish and Fisheries, 10, 88-97.
32. McGeoch, M.A., Chown, S.L., and Kalwij, J.M. (2006) A global indicator for biological invasion. Conservation Biology, 20, 1635-1646.
33. McGeoch, M.A., Spear, D., and Marias, E. (2009) Status of alien species invasion and trends in invasive species policy. Summary report for the Global Invasive Species Programme. http://academic.sun.ac.za/cib/IASI/archive/PoC_Summary_Report_Jan2009.pd f.
34. McGeoch, M.A.,Butchart, S.H.M., Spear,D., et al. (2010) Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses. Diversity and Distributions, 16, 95-108.
35. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for Assessment. Island Press, Washington, DC.
36. Natural Heritage Trust (2006) National land and water resources audit. Australian Government, Canberra. Available from http://www.nlwra.gov.au. Accessed July 2006.
37. Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A. and Galil, B. (2004) A uniform terminology on bioinvasions: a chimera or an operative tool? Marine Pollution Bulletin, 49, 688-694.
38. Parks Canada (2005) Inventory and monitoring. National Parks of Canada, Gatineau. Available from: ww.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/eco/eco3.aspx. Accessed August 2012.
39. Pyšek, P., Richardson, D.M., Pergl, J., Jarosik, V., Sixtova, Z., and Weber, E. (2008) Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23, 237-244.
40. Pyšek, P., Jarosík V., Hulme P.E., et al. (2010) Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 107, 12157-12162.
41. Richardson, D.M. and Pyšek, P. (2008) Fifty years of invasion ecology - the legacy of Charles Elton. Diversity and Distributions, 14, 161-168.
42. Richardson, D.M., Pyšek, P., Rejmánek, M., et al. (2000) Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions. Diversity and Distributions, 6, 93-107.
43. Rodrigues, A.S., Pilgrim, J.D., Lamoreux, J.F., Hoffmann, M., and Brooks, T.M. (2006) The value of the IUCN Red List for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 71-76.
44. Roques, A., Rabitsch, W., Rasplus, J.-Y., Lopez-Vamonde, C., Nentwig,W., and Kenis,M. (2009) Alien terrestrial invertebrates of Europe. In: DAISIE (ed.), The Handbook of Alien Species in Europe. Springer, Berlin.
45. UNEP (2002) COP 6 Decision VI/23. Alien species that threaten ecosystems, habitats or species. The Hague, 7-19 April 2002. United Nations Environment Programme. Available from: http://www.cbd.int/decisions/?id=7197= (accessed September 2008).
46. UNEP (2003) Monitoring and indicators: designing national level monitoring programmes and indicators. UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/9/A0. United Nations Environment Programme, Montreal.
47. Valéry, L., Fritz, H., Lefeuvre, J., and Simberloff, D. (2008) In search of a real definition of the biological invasion phenomenon itself. Biological Invasions, 10, 1345-1351.
48. Vié, J.-C., Hilton-Taylor, C., and Stuart, S.N. (eds), (2009) Wildlife in a Changing World - An Analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, 180 pp.
49. Vilà, M., Basnou, C., Pysek, P., et al. (2010) How well do we understand the impacts of alien species on ecosystem services? A pan-European, cross-taxa assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8, 135-144.
50. Vitule, J.R.S., Freire, A.C., and Simberloff. D., (2009) Introduction of non-native freshwater fish can certainly be bad. Fish and Fisheries, 10, 98-108.
51. Walpole, M., Almond, R., Besançon, C., et al. (2009) Tracking progress towards the 2010 biodiversity target and beyond. Science, 325, 1503-1504.