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What are the economic costs of biological invasions? A complex topic requiring international and interdisciplinary expertise

Christophe Diagne
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Jane A Catford
Franz Essl
Martín A Nuñez
Franck Courchamp

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Biological invasions can cause substantial economic losses and expenses for management, as well as harm biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. A comprehensive assessment of the economic costs of invasions is a challenging but essential prerequisite for efficient and sustainable management of invasive alien species. Indeed, these costs were shown to be inherently heterogeneous and complex to determine, and substantial knowledge gaps prevent a full understanding of their nature and distribution. Hence, the development of a still-missing global, standard framework for assessing and deciphering invasion costs is essential to identify effective management approaches and optimise legislation. The recent advent of the InvaCost database-the first comprehensive and harmonised compilation of the economic costs associated with biological invasions worldwide-offers unique opportunities to investigate these complex and diverse costs at different scales. Insights provided by such a dataset are likely to be greatest when a diverse range of experience and expertise are combined. For this purpose, an international and multidisciplinary workshop was held from 12 th to 15 th November 2019 near Paris (France) to launch several project papers based on the data available in InvaCost. Here, we highlight how the innovative research arising from this workshop offers a major step forward in invasion science. We collectively identified five core research opportunities that InvaCost can help to address: (i) decipher how existing costs of invasions are actually distributed in human * The authors contributed equally to this work.
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hal-03043283 , version 1 (07-12-2020)

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Christophe Diagne, Jane A Catford, Franz Essl, Martín A Nuñez, Franck Courchamp. What are the economic costs of biological invasions? A complex topic requiring international and interdisciplinary expertise. NeoBiota, 2020, 63, pp.25 - 37. ⟨10.3897/neobiota.63.55260⟩. ⟨hal-03043283⟩
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