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The future management of biological invasions in Europe. AlienScenarios and InvasiBES policy brief

Creators

  • 1. Universitat de Girona
  • 2. Freie Universität Berlin
  • 3. Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries
  • 4. Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
  • 5. ROR icon University of Alicante
  • 6. Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
  • 7. ROR icon Stockholm Resilience Centre
  • 8. ROR icon University of Vienna
  • 9. The University of Edinburgh
  • 10. ROR icon Research Institute for Nature and Forest
  • 11. ROR icon University of Cambridge
  • 12. BioRISC
  • 13. ROR icon University of Fribourg
  • 14. Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
  • 15. University of Sevilla
  • 16. ROR icon Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications
  • 17. ROR icon Spanish National Research Council
  • 18. Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya (CTFC)
  • 19. ROR icon World Organisation for Animal Health
  • 20. ROR icon Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
  • 21. Institute for Environmental Protection and Research
  • 22. Chair IUCN/SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group
  • 23. ROR icon Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
  • 24. University of Cordoba
  • 25. CABI
  • 26. University of Zurich
  • 27. Institute for Environment and Nature
  • 28. Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • 29. Ocean University of China
  • 30. University of Innsbruck
  • 31. EUROPARC Federation
  • 32. ROR icon Environment Agency Austria
  • 33. ROR icon Newcastle University
  • 34. UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
  • 35. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
  • 36. Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 37. Julius Kühn-Institute
  • 38. ROR icon European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
  • 39. ROR icon McGill University

Description

This policy brief is the result of a collaboration between the research projects “AlienScenarios” and “InvasiBES ” funded by the 2017-2018 Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA joint call for research proposals, under the BiodivScen ERA-Net COFUND programme. Its content is based on a participatory process that brought together a team of researchers, policymakers, conservationists and environmental managers from different countries to explore the future management of biological invasions in Europe and provide recommendations to policy-makers. We downscaled global scenarios for biological invasions to the European level and used them to develop a guiding strategy for the long-term management of invasive alien species.

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Is derived from
Journal article: 10.1002/fee.2725 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1002/pan3.10567 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1007/s11625-021-00963-6 (DOI)

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