Introduction, spread, and impacts of invasive alien mammal species in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Biological invasions have emerged as one of the main drivers of biodiversity change and decline, and numbers of species classed as alien in parts of their ranges are rapidly rising. The European Union established a dedicated regulation to limit the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS), which is focused on the species on a Union List of IAS of particular concern. However, no previous study has specifically addressed the ecology of invasive alien mammals included on the Union List.We performed a systematic review of published literature on these species. We retrieved 262 publications dealing with 16 species, and we complemented these with the most up-to-date information extracted from global databases on IAS.We show that most of the study species reached Europe as pets and then escaped fr

SUBMITTER: Tedeschi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9299096 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature