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METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 13, 期 9, 页码 1930-1937出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13929
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biological invasions; drivers of change in biodiversity; economic costs; economic impacts; ecosystem services; invasive alien species
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- BiodivERsA-Belmont Forum [BMBF/PT DLR 01LC1807C]
InvaCost is a global database that provides cost data on invasive alien species, and the invacost r package serves as a tool for querying and analyzing this data. This package helps scientists better understand and study the economic costs of invasive species, while addressing issues of repeatability and comparability in research, promoting interdisciplinary studies.
The reported costs of invasive alien species from the global database InvaCost are heterogeneous and cover different spatio-temporal scales. A standard procedure for aggregating invasive species cost estimates is necessary to ensure the repeatability and comparativeness of studies. We introduce here the invacost r package, an open-source software designed to query and analyse the InvaCost database. We illustrate this package and its framework with cost data associated with invasive alien invertebrates. First, the invacost package provides updates of this dynamic database directly in the analytical environment R. Second, it helps understand the heterogeneous nature of monetary cost data for invasive species, processes to harmonize the data and the inherent biases associated with such data. Third, it readily provides complementary methods to investigate the costs of invasive species at different scales, all the while accounting for econometric statistical issues. This tool will be useful for scientists working on invasive alien species, by (a) facilitating access to and use of this multi-disciplinary data resource and (b) providing a standard procedure which will facilitate reproducibility and comparability among studies, one of the major critics of this topic until now. It should facilitate further interdisciplinary works including economists and invasion ecology researchers.
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