Prioritizing weeds for biological control development in the western USA: adaptation of the Biological Control Target Selection system

RL Winston, M Schwarzländer, HL Hinz, PD Pratt - BioControl, 2024 - Springer
Nonnative invasive plants (weeds) negatively impact native biodiversity, ecosystem
services, agriculture, and the economic interests and health of humans. Since 1902 …

[HTML][HTML] A horizon scan exercise for aquatic invasive alien species in Iberian inland waters

FJ Oficialdegui, JM Zamora-Marín, S Guareschi… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
As the number of introduced species keeps increasing unabatedly, identifying and
prioritising current and potential Invasive Alien Species (IAS) has become essential to …

Identifying invasive species threats, pathways, and impacts to improve biosecurity

D Lieurance, S Canavan, DC Behringer… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Managing invasive species with prevention and early‐detection strategies can avert severe
ecological and economic impacts. Horizon scanning, an evidence‐based process …

Invasive species policy must embrace a changing climate

BA Bradley, EM Beaury, EJ Fusco, BE Lopez - BioScience, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With increasing impacts of climate change observed across ecosystems, there is an urgent
need to consider climate change in all future environmental policy. But existing policy and …

Horizon scanning: Tools to identify emerging threats to plant health in a changing world

A Antoniou, M Abergel, A Akrivou, T Beale… - EPPO …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of risk analysis, horizon scanning activity is a necessary component of any
foresight process. This applies also to the specific context of biological invasions, supported …

ARAapp: filling gaps in the ecological knowledge of spiders using an automated and dynamic approach to analyze systematically collected community data

A Bach, F Raub, H Höfer, R Ottermanns… - Database, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The ARAMOB data repository compiles meticulously curated spider community datasets
from systematical collections, ensuring a high standard of data quality. These datasets are …

[HTML][HTML] Climate space, traits, and the spread of nonnative plants in North America

Q Guo, H Qian, S Qian - Plant Diversity, 2024 - Elsevier
The future distribution of invading species depends on the climate space available and
certain life history traits that facilitate invasion. Here, to predict the spread potential of plant …

Identifying new invasive plants in the face of climate change: a focus on sleeper species

AC O'Uhuru, TL Morelli, AE Evans, JD Salva… - Biological …, 2024 - Springer
Sleeper populations are established populations of introduced species whose population
growth is limited by one or more abiotic or biotic conditions. Sleeper populations pose an …

[HTML][HTML] Prioritizing weeds for biological control development in the western USA: Results from the adaptation of the biological control target selection system

RL Winston, M Schwarzländer, HL Hinz, J Rushton… - Biological Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Nonnative invasive plants (weeds) negatively impact native ecosystems, and their effects
are likely to increase with continuing global trade. Biological weed control has been …

[PDF][PDF] Prioritisation of quarantine pest list for the Caribbean using a multi-criteria decision approach

D Saravanakumar, ES Bartholomew, G Seepersad… - …, 2023 - neobiota.pensoft.net
Quarantine plant pests are socially, economically and environmentally important due to their
impact on food security, human health, global trade and crop production costs. The increase …