Gastropods alien to South Africa cause severe environmental harm in their global alien ranges across habitats.

ABSTRACT: Alien gastropods have caused extensive harm to biodiversity and socioeconomic systems like agriculture and horticulture worldwide. For conservation and management purposes, information on impacts needs to be easily interpretable and comparable, and the factors that determine impacts understood. This study aimed to assess gastropods alien to South Africa to compare impact severity between species and understand how they vary between habitats and mechanisms. Furthermore, we explore the relationship between environmental and socioeconomic impacts, and both impact measures with life-history traits. We used the Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) and Socio-Economic Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (SEICAT) to assess impacts of 34 gastropods alien to South Africa inclu

SUBMITTER: Kesner D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6144998 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature