Fast economic development accelerates biological invasions in China.

ABSTRACT: Increasing levels of global trade and intercontinental travel have been cited as the major causes of biological invasion. However, indirect factors such as economic development that affect the intensity of invasion have not been quantitatively explored. Herein, using principal factor analysis, we investigated the relationship between biological invasion and economic development together with climatic information for China from the 1970s to present. We demonstrate that the increase in biological invasion is coincident with the rapid economic development that has occurred in China over the past three decades. The results indicate that the geographic prevalence of invasive species varies substantially on the provincial scale, but can be surprisingly well predicted using the combination of eco

SUBMITTER: Lin W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2065902 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature