Melina Kourantidou

TL;DR: The authors in this paper determined patterns and trends in economic costs of aquatic IAS by examining: (i) the distribution of these costs across taxa, geographic regions and cost types; (ii) the temporal dynamics of global costs; and (iii) knowledge gaps, especially compared to terrestrial IAS.

TL;DR: The InvaCost database as discussed by the authors was built following a workshop funded by the AXA Research Fund Chair of Invasion Biology and is part of the AlienScenario project funded by BiodivERsA and Belmont-Forum call 2018 on biodiversity scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare data from 15 non-English languages on the global economic costs of invasive alien species reported in 15 nonEnglish languages, and show that nonEnglish sources capture a greater amount of data than English sources alone, adding 249 invasive species and 15 countries to those reported by English literature, and increase the global cost estimate of invasions by 16.6% (i.e., US$ 214 billion added to 1.288 trillion estimated from the English database).

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors use a comprehensive database of invasive alien species economic costs (InvaCost) to synthesise and model the global management costs of biological invasions, in order to provide a better understanding of the stage at which these expenditures occur.

TL;DR: The first attempt to collectively quantify the reported economic costs of IAS in the Mediterranean basin, across a range of taxonomic, temporal and spatial descriptors, was made by as mentioned in this paper.