Mélodie A. McGeoch, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Dian Spear, Elrike Marais et al.
Abstract Aim Invasive alien species (IAS) pose a significant threat to biodiversity. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2010 Biodiversity Target, and the associated indicator for IAS, has stimulated globally coordinated efforts to quantify patterns in the extent of biological invasion, its imp...
Shyama Pagad, Piero Genovesi, Lucilla Carnevali, Dmitry Schigel et al.
Harmonised, representative data on the state of biological invasions remain inadequate at country and global scales, particularly for taxa that affect biodiversity and ecosystems. Information is not readily available in a form suitable for policy and reporting. The Global Register of Introduced and ...
Helen E. Roy, Aníbal Pauchard, Peter Stoett, Tanara Renard Truong et al.
Although invasive alien species have long been recognized as a major threat to nature and people, until now there has been no comprehensive global review of the status, trends, drivers, impacts, management and governance challenges of biological invasions. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platfo...
Shyama Pagad, Stewart Bisset, Piero Genovesi, Quentin Groom et al.
The Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) is a collation of data across 196 individual country checklists of alien species, along with a designation of those species with evidence of impact at a country level. The Compendium provides a baseline for moni...
Piero Genovesi, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Mélodie A. McGeoch, David B. Roy
Biological invasions are a major threat to biological diversity and to human well-being, affecting all regions of the world, and all ecosystems. The global community has committed to prevent and mitigate the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS), and to monitor trends in invasions. Following a rev...