Economic costs of invasive non-native species in urban areas: An underexplored financial drain

作者：Gustavo Heringer, Romina Fernández, Alok Bang, Marion Cordonnier, Ana Novoa, Bernd Lenzner, César Capinha, David Renault, David Roiz, Desika Moodley, Elena Tricarico, Kathrin Holenstein, Melina Kourantidou, Natalia Kirichenko, José Ricardo Pires Adelino, Romina D. Dimarco, Thomas W. Bodey, Yuya Watari, Franck Courchamp · 发表于：The Science of The Total Environment · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170336 · 被引用次数：32 · 研究领域：Economic and Environmental Valuation、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Plant and animal studies

Urbanization is an important driver of global change associated with a set of environmental modifications that affect the introduction and distribution of invasive non-native species (species with populations transported by humans beyond their natural biogeographic range that established and are spreading in their introduced range; hereafter, invasive species). These species are recognized as a cause of large ecological and economic losses. Nevertheless, the economic impacts of these species in urban areas are still poorly understood. Here we present a synthesis of the reported economic costs of invasive species in urban areas using the global InvaCost database, and demonstrate that costs are likely underestimated. Sixty-one invasive species have been reported to cause a cumulative cost of US$ 326.7 billion in urban areas between 1965 and 2021 globally (average annual cost of US$ 5.7 billion). Class Insecta was responsible for >99 % of reported costs (US$ 324.4 billion), followed by Aves (US$ 1.4 billion), and Magnoliopsida (US$ 494 million). The reported costs were highly uneven with the sum of the five costliest species representing 80 % of reported costs. Most reported costs were a result of damage (77.3 %), principally impacting public and social welfare (77.9 %) and authorities-stakeholders (20.7 %), and were almost entirely in terrestrial environments (99.9 %). We found costs reported for 24 countries. Yet, there are 73 additional countries with no reported costs, but w...