Massive yet grossly underestimated global costs of invasive insects

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 12986 - 8
• Main Authors: Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Leroy, Boris, Bellard, Céline, Roiz, David, Albert, Céline, Fournier, Alice, Barbet-Massin, Morgane, Salles, Jean-Michel, Simard, Frédéric, Courchamp, Franck
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.10.2016; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/158/2178; 631/601/1466; 704/172/4081; 706/1143; Animals; Biodiversity; Climate change; Conservation of Natural Resources; Cost control; Cost estimates; Crop damage; Disease; Environment; Global Health; Global warming; Health Care Costs; Health Expenditures; Human populations; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Insect Vectors; Insecta; Insects; International trade; Introduced Species; Invasive insects; Invasive species; Isoptera; Life Sciences; Models, Economic; multidisciplinary; Nonnative species; open climate campaign; Pest Control - economics; Population density; Public awareness; Public Policy; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Termites; Los Angeles California; California; France; United States > US; Europe; Invasive species; Agriculture; Entomology; Environmental impact

Insects have presented human society with some of its greatest development challenges by spreading diseases, consuming crops and damaging infrastructure. Despite the massive human and financial toll of invasive insects, cost estimates of their impacts remain sporadic, spatially incomplete and of que...