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Invasive alien species (IAS) are a major threat to global biodiversity. As a result ‘Trends in IAS’ has been selected as one of 22 Headline Indicators (HI) to measure progress towards the Convention on Biological Diversity's target of reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010.

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Database

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Publications

  • Butchart, S.H.M., Walpole, M., Collen, B., van Strien, A., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Almond, R.E.A., Baillie, J.E.M., Bomhard, B., Brown, C., Bruno, J., Carpenter, K.E., Carr, G.M., Chanson, J., Chenery, A.M., Csirke, J., Davidson, N.C., Dentener, F., Foster, M., Galli, A., Galloway, J.N., Genovesi, P., Gregory, R.D., Hockings, M., Kapos, V., Lamarque, J-F., Leverington, F., Loh, J., McGeoch, M.A., McRae, L., Minasyan, A., Hernandez Morcillo, M., Oldfield, T.E.E., Pauly, D., Quader, S., Revenga, C., Sauer, J.R., Skolnik, B., Spear, D., Stanwell-Smith, D., Stuart, S.N., Symes, A., Tierney, M., Tyrell, T.D., Vie, J-C. & Watson, R. 2010. Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines. Science, 328, 1164-1168.

    Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5982/1164.abstract

  • McGeoch, M.A., Butchart, S.H.M., Spear, D., Marais, E., Kleynhans, E.J., Symes, A., Chanson, J. and Hoffmann, M. 2010. Global indicators of alien species invasion: threats, biodiversity impact and responses. Diversity and Distributions, 16, 95-108.

    Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00633.x/abstract

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