Identifying hotspots of invasive alien terrestrial vertebrates in Europe to assist transboundary prevention and control
| العنوان: | Identifying hotspots of invasive alien terrestrial vertebrates in Europe to assist transboundary prevention and control |
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| المؤلفون: | Ester Polaina, Mariano R. Recio, Tomas Pärt |
| المصدر: | Scientific Reports, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2020) Scientific Reports |
| بيانات النشر: | Nature Portfolio, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 0106 biological sciences, Multidisciplinary, Invasive species, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Conservation biology, business.industry, Science, Species distribution, Environmental resource management, Species detection, Alien, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Article, Geography, Biogeography, Medicine, Species richness, business, Ecological modelling, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| الوصف: | This study aims to identify environmentally suitable areas for 15 of the most harmful invasive alien terrestrial vertebrates (IATV) in Europe in a transparent and replicable way. We used species distribution models and publicly-available data from GBIF to predict environmental suitability and to identify hotspots of IATV accounting for knowledge gaps in their distributions. To deal with the ecological particularities of invasive species, we followed a hierarchical approach to estimate the global climatic suitability for each species and incorporated this information into refined environmental suitability models within Europe. Combined predictions on environmental suitability identified potential areas of IATV concentrations or hotspots. Uncertainty of predictions identified regions requiring further survey efforts for species detection. Around 14% of Europe comprised potential hotspots of IATV richness, mainly located in northern France, UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. IATV coldspots covered ~ 9% of Europe, including southern Sweden and Finland, and northern Germany. Most of Europe (~ 77% area) comprised uncertain suitability predictions, likely caused by a lack of data. Priorities on prevention and control should focus on potential hotspots where harmful impacts might concentrate. Promoting the collection of presence data within data-deficient areas is encouraged as a core strategy against IATVs. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2045-2322 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::ce41157bfa342c11155fe51b039dbfe0Test https://doaj.org/article/b636c8a3b0b04363a42cc4dde1dfef2aTest |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....ce41157bfa342c11155fe51b039dbfe0 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 20452322 |
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