Published July 19, 2025 | Version v1
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Supplementary files to: Invasive Alien Species Horizon Scanning in support of implementation of Regulation 1143/2014

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon International Union for Conservation of Nature
  • 2. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
  • 3. EDMO icon Research Institute for Nature and Forest
  • 4. ROR icon Estacion Experimental de Zonas Aridas
  • 5. Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
  • 6. ROR icon International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
  • 7. Institute of Botany, Průhonice, Czech Republic
  • 8. ROR icon Environment Agency Austria
  • 9. ROR icon University of Exeter
  • 10. ROR icon UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
  • 11. Invasive Species Specialist Group
  • 12. University of Florence
  • 13. ROR icon University of Cambridge
  • 14. ROR icon Universidad de Málaga
  • 15. Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin
  • 16. ROR icon University of Sassari
  • 17. European Commission Joint Research Centre
  • 18. ROR icon Forest Research
  • 19. ROR icon University of Liverpool
  • 20. University of Athens
  • 21. INBO
  • 22. ROR icon Ghent University
  • 23. ROR icon University of Vienna
  • 24. ROR icon Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
  • 25. ROR icon Freie Universität Berlin
  • 26. ROR icon Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
  • 27. University of Girona
  • 28. Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
  • 29. Belgian National Scientific Secretariat on Invasive Alien Species
  • 30. University of the Aegean
  • 31. Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet
  • 32. ROR icon University of Pavia
  • 33. ROR icon University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
  • 34. Klaipėda University
  • 35. ROR icon University College Cork
  • 36. ROR icon University of Stirling
  • 37. ROR icon Ovidius University
  • 38. ROR icon University of Lisbon
  • 39. Crop Research Institute, Praha-Ruzyně, Czech Republic
  • 40. Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 41. Nederlandse Voedsel- en Warenautoriteit

Description

These files are the two Supplementary Materials of the report 'Invasive Alien Species Horizon Scanning in support of implementation of Regulation 1143/2014 - Final Study Report', as produced by IUCN together with several scientific experts from Europe in 2025. An updated methodology was put together, consisting of gathering species lists from global horizon scanning exercises and additional databases. These lists were refined, after which a rapid assessment of a subset of some species was undertaken to evaluate their potential invasiveness, followed by consensus building to achieve a final list of prioritised species through an in-person workshop.

Supplementary Material 1 refers to the lists of species that were excluded from the initial long list of candidate species due to:  1) a lack of robust distribution data and 2) their being considered widely spread in the EU, defined as occurring in three or more 50x50 km grid cells in the EU, based on GBIF data.

Supplementary Material 2 includes 1) a list of 57 species that were deemed to present the highest threats to biodiversity in the EU in the next 10 years, 2) a list of 108 species that were deemed to also be of high risk to EU biodiversity and 3) the 457 remaining species that were put forward for scoring by the experts. 

This dataset represents a raw supplement to the original report. A tidy plain text file format will be made available for use in R or python linked to this dataset.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Report: 10.5281/zenodo.15019375 (DOI)

Funding

European Commission
Invasive Alien Species Horizon Scanning in support of implementation of Regulation 1143/2014 09.0201/2023/907919/SER/ENV.D2