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Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

AuthorsPyšek, Petr; Jarošík, Vojtěch; Hulme, Philip E.; Kühn, Ingolf; Wild, Jan; Arianoutsou, Margarita; Bacher, Sven; Chiron, François; Didžiulish, Viktoras
KeywordsClimate
economy
exotic plants and animals
Geography
Prediction
Issue Date2010
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
CitationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 107: 12157-12162 (2010)
AbstractThe accelerating rates of international trade, travel, and transport in the latter half of the twentieth century have led to the progressive mixing of biota from across the world and the number of species introduced to new regions continues to increase. The importance of biogeographic, climatic, economic, and demographic factors as drivers of this trend is increasingly being realized but as yet there is no consensus regarding their relative importance. Whereas little may be done to mitigate the effects of geography and climate on invasions, a wider range of options may exist to moderate the impacts of economic and demographic drivers. Here we use the most recent data available from Europe to partition between macroecological, economic, and demographic variables the varia- tion in alien species richness of bryophytes, fungi, vascular plants, terrestrial insects, aquatic invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Only national wealth and human population density were statistically significant predictors in the majority of models when analyzed jointly with climate, geography, and land cover. The economic and demographic variables reflect the intensity of human activities and integrate the effect of factors that directly determine the outcome of invasion such as propagule pressure, pathways of introduction, eutrophication, and the intensity of anthropogenic disturbance. The strong influence of economic and demographic variables on the levels of invasion by alien species demonstrates that future solutions to the problem of biological invasions at a national scale lie in mitigating the negative environ- mental consequences of human activities that generate wealth and by promoting more sustainable population growth
Publisher version (URL)http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1002314107
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/52375
DOI10.1073/pnas.100231407
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