IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natcom/v1y2010i1d10.1038_ncomms1118.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Threat of invasive pests from within national borders

Author

Listed:
  • Dean R. Paini

    (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
    Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity)

  • Susan P. Worner

    (Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
    Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University)

  • David C. Cook

    (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences
    Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
    Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University)

  • Paul J. De Barro

    (Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
    CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences)

  • Matthew B. Thomas

    (Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
    Penn State University)

Abstract

Predicting and ranking potential invasive species present significant challenges to researchers and biosecurity agencies. Here we analyse a worldwide database of pest species assemblages to generate lists of the top 100 insect pests most likely to establish in the United States and each of its 48 contiguous states. For the United States as a whole, all of the top 100 pest species have already established. Individual states however tend to have many more 'gaps' with most states having at least 20 species absent from their top 100 list. For all but one state, every exotic pest species currently absent from a state's top 100 can be found elsewhere in the contiguous United States. We conclude that the immediate threat from known invasive insect pests is greater from within the United States than without. Our findings have potentially significant implications for biosecurity policy, emphasizing the need to consider biosecurity measures beyond established national border interventions.

Suggested Citation

  • Dean R. Paini & Susan P. Worner & David C. Cook & Paul J. De Barro & Matthew B. Thomas, 2010. "Threat of invasive pests from within national borders," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 1(1), pages 1-6, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:1:y:2010:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1118
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1118
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1118
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/ncomms1118?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xubin Pan & Jingqiu Zhang & Han Xu & Xianglin Zhang & Wei Zhang & Huahai Song & Shuifang Zhu, 2015. "Spatial similarity in the distribution of invasive alien plants and animals in China," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 77(3), pages 1751-1764, July.
    2. Roigé, Mariona & Parry, Matthew & Phillips, Craig & Worner, Susan, 2016. "Self-organizing maps for analysing pest profiles: Sensitivity analysis of weights and ranks," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 342(C), pages 113-122.
    3. Louise Morin & Dean R Paini & Roderick P Randall, 2013. "Can Global Weed Assemblages Be Used to Predict Future Weeds?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(2), pages 1-10, February.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:1:y:2010:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1118. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.