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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...
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...