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Date of Publication: December
Year of Publication: 2022
Publication City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Publisher: Science Direct
Author(s): Dov F. Sax, Martin A. Schlaepfer, Julian D. Olden
Journal: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume: 37, Issue 12
Pages: 1058-1066
Highlights
- The study of non-native species has predominantly focused on quantifying the costs they inflict on people and nature.
- Recent decades have witnessed scientists acknowledging, and over the past few years increasingly investigating, the benefits that non-native species may provide.
- Here we provide a framework for considering the diversity of positive benefits supported by non-native species relative to relational, instrumental, and intrinsic values.
- Despite undoubted publication biases, we find that benefits of non-native species are diverse, frequent, and often of large magnitude.
- More research aimed at considering benefits of non-native species, and contrasting these benefits with costs is needed to advance our understanding of the impacts of non-native species and better contextualize management and policy decisions.
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