Temporal trends in number of database entries, number of species reported, and annual costs in different versions of the InvaCost database (invacost.fr) — see also the InvaCost organisation page on Github.
Prof Corey J. A. Bradshaw
Global Ecology | Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
last updated May 2023
contributors: Ismael Soto, Boris Leroy, Phillip Haubrock
Accompanies paper:
Ahmed DA, Haubrock PJ, Cuthbert RN, Bang A, Soto I, Balzani P, Tarkan AS, Macêdo RL, Carneiro L, Bodey TW, Oficialdegui FJ, Courtois P, Kourantidou M, Angulo E, Heringer G, Renault D, Turbelin AJ, Hudgins EJ, Liu C, Gojery SA, Arbieu U, Diagne C, Leroy B, Briski E, Bradshaw CJA, Courchamp F. 2023. Recent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions. BioScience 73: 560–574. doi:10.1093/biosci/biad060
Biological invasions are a global challenge that has received insufficient attention. Recently available cost syntheses have provided policy and decision makers with reliable and up-to-date information on the economic impacts of biological invasions, aiming to motivate effective management. The resultant InvaCost database is now publicly and freely accessible and enables rapid extraction of monetary cost information globally. This has facilitated knowledge sharing, developed a more integrated and multidisciplinary network of researchers, and forged multidisciplinary collaborations among diverse organisations and stakeholders. Over 50 scientific publications so far have used the database and provided detailed assessments of invasion costs across geographic, taxonomic, and spatio-temporal scales. These studies have provided important information that can guide future policy and legislative decisions on the management of biological invasions, while simultaneously attracting public and media attention. We provide an overview of the improved availability, reliability, standardisation, and defragmentation of monetary costs, how this has enhanced invasion science as a discipline, and outline directions for future development. .
- This directory contains six .xlsx files:
- Table S1: InvaCost publications List of 52 peer-reviewed articles that have used the InvaCost database, categorised according to themes
- Table S2: Compilation of policy documents that have referenced InvaCost studies
- Table S3: News articles Altmetric scores, examples of news stories with associated outlets, and number of tweets
- Table S4: Summary of the descriptors Type of cost merged and Management type used in InvaCost database
- Table S5: Number of established invasive species per country including monetary costs from the InvaCost database
- References: References for all Supplementary tables
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