Economic costs of invasive non-native species in urban areas: An underexplored financial drain
2024
Heringer, Gustavo | Fernandez, Romina, D | Bang, Alok | Cordonnier, Marion | Novoa, Ana | Lenzner, Bernd | Capinha, César | Renault, D | Roiz, David, A | Moodley, Desika | Tricarico, Elena | Holenstein, Kathrin | Kourantidou, Melina | Kirichenko, Natalia | Adelino, José, Ricardo Pires | Dimarco, Romina, D | W. Bodey, Thomas | Watari, Yuya | Courchamp, Franck | Universidade Federal de Lavras = Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) | Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) | Azim Premji University | Universität Regensburg = University of Regensburg = Université de Ratisbonne [Allemagne] (UR) | Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IB / CAS) ; Czech Academy of Sciences [Prague] (CAS) | Universität Wien = University of Vienna | Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon = Université de Lisbonne [Lisboa] (ULISBOA) | Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes] (ECOBIO) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut Ecologie et Environnement - CNRS Ecologie et Environnement (INEE-CNRS) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Institut universitaire de France (IUF) ; Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.) | Maladies infectieuses et vecteurs : écologie, génétique, évolution et contrôle (MIVEGEC) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Université de Montpellier (UM) | Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence = Université de Florence (UniFI) | Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) ; Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [Occitanie])-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Université de Montpellier (UM) | University of Southern Denmark = Syddansk Universitet (SDU) | Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer (AMURE) ; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO EPE)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Siberian Federal University (SibFU) | State University of Londrina = Universidade Estadual de Londrina | University of Houston | University of Aberdeen | Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) | Ecologie, Société et Evolution (ex-Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution) (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | The authors acknowledge the French National Research Agency (ANR-14-CE02-0021) and the BNP-Paribas Foundation Climate Initiative for funding the Invacost project that allowed the construction of the InvaCost database. The present work was conducted following a workshop funded by the AXA Research Fund Chair of Invasion Biology and is part of the AlienScenario project funded by BiodivERsA and Belmont-Forum call 2018 on a biodiversity scenario. We also acknowledge Dr. Christophe Diagne for the important contributions during the development of this work, and all researchers and environmental managers who kindly answered our request for information about the costs of invasive species. GH thanks Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (Capes) – Finance code 001 and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for supporting his postdoctoral research. KH has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreementNo. 766417. DRe thanks InEE-CNRS for the support received for the network GdR 3647 CNRS ‘Invasions Biologiques’. AN and DM were supported by EXPRO grant no. 19-28807X (Czech Science Foundation) and long-term research development project RVO 67985939 (Czech Academy of Sciences), NIK was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 22-16-00075; national literature review) and the Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS (the basic project, grant No. FWES-2021-0011; database contribution). ET acknowledges the support of the Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.4 - Call for tender No. 3138 of 16 December 2021, rectified by Decree n. 3175 of 18 December 2021 of the Italian Ministry of University and Research funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU; Award Number: Project code CNS 00000033, Concession Decree No.1034 of 17 June 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP J83C22000870007 and B833C22002910001, Project title “National Biodiversity Future Center - NBFC”. | ANR-14-CE02-0021,InvaCosts,Insectes envahissants et leurs couts pour la biodiversité, l'économie et la santé humaine(2014)
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Urbanization is an important driver of global change associated with a set of environmental modifications that affect the introduction and distribution of invasive non-native species (species with populations transported by humans beyond their natural biogeographic range that established and are spreading in their introduced range; hereafter, invasive species). These species are recognized as a cause of large ecological and economic losses. Nevertheless, the economic impacts of these species in urban areas are still poorly understood. Here we present a synthesis of the reported economic costs of invasive species in urban areas using the global InvaCost database, and demonstrate that costs are likely underestimated. Sixty-one invasive species have been reported to cause a cumulative cost of USD 326.7 billion in urban areas between 1965 and 2021 globally (average annual cost of US$ 5.7 billion). Class Insecta was responsible for >99 % of reported costs (USD 324.4 billion), followed by Aves (USD 1.4 billion), and Magnoliopsida (US$ 494 million). The reported costs were highly uneven with the sum of the five costliest species representing 80 %. Most reported costs were a result of damage (77.3 %), principally impacting public and social welfare (77.9 %) and authorities-stakeholders (20.7 %), and were almost entirely recorded in terrestrial environments (99.9 %). We found costs reported to 24 countries, yet there were 73 countries with records of species that cause urban costs elsewhere but with no urban costs reported themselves. Although covering a relatively small area of the earth surface, urban areas represent about 15 % of the total reported costs attributed to invasive species. These results highlight the conservative nature of the estimates and impacts, revealing important biases present in the evaluation and publication of reported data on costs. Thus, we emphasize the urgent need for more focused assessments of invasive species economic impacts in urban areas.
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