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Assessments of alien species impacts are reliable to prioritize resources

The Doñana Biological Station – CSIC has shown the reliability of assessments of alien species impacts, which help prioritize resources against one of the current and future challenges of...

The economic costs of invasive alien ants total 46.000 million euros

An international scientific team led by the CSIC cuantifies the effects of the invasion of these insects in agriculture and public health
This work takes data from Invacost, the first database...

Benefits of restoring apex predator populations

The role that apex predators play in ecosystem functioning, disease regulation and biodiversity maintenance is increasingly debated. However, the positive impacts of their presence in terrestrial...

A novel system for ranking and comparing the impacts of introduced species

Many alien taxa are known to cause socio-economic impacts by affecting the different constituents of human well-being (security; material and immaterial assets; health; social, spiritual and...

Prioritization management tool for damaging alien species

Alien species can exert negative environmental and socio-economic impacts. Often it is not clear which of the numerous alien species are most important in terms of damage, and therefore, impact...