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Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
  • 2 Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK; Centre for Ecology, Environment and Sustainability, Bournemouth University, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK; School of the Environment, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario K9L 0G2, Canada
  • 3 Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL 33570, USA
  • 4 Faculty of Biology, Belarusian State University, 220030 Minsk, Belarus
  • 5 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK
  • 6 College of Science and Mathematics, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA
  • 7 Marine Science Centre, University of Basrah, PO Box 49, Basrah, Iraq
  • 8 Departamento de Ciencias Médicas Básicas, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad San Pablo CEU, 28003 Madrid, Spain
  • 9 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia
  • 10 Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana 1000, Albania; Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Tirana 1000, Albania
  • 11 Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
  • 12 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Gulf Fisheries Centre, Moncton, New Brunswick E1C 5K4, Canada
  • 13 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
  • 14 Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Menteşe, Muğla, Turkey
  • 15 Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Tapada da Ajuda 1349-017, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 16 Faculty of Marine Science, Hanoi University of Natural Resources and Environment, 41A Phu Dien, Bac Tu Liem, Hanoi, Viet Nam
  • 17 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), 9020-105 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA
  • 18 Coordination of Sustainable Use of Fisheries Resources, Department of Species Conservation, Ministry of Environment, 70068-900 Brasilia, Brazil
  • 19 Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), 28359 Bremen, Germany; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Panamá
  • 20 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), 9020-105 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
  • 21 Department of Environmental Technology and Management, Faculty of Environment, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
  • 22 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal; Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, 2910-761 Setúbal, Portugal
  • 23 Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 117558, Singapore
  • 24 Laboratory of Ecology, Fisheries and Ichthyology, Biodiversity Department - Palotina Sector, Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), Curitiba 80060-000, Brazil
  • 25 Laboratory of Coastal Benthic Ecology, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), 29280 Plouzané, France
  • 26 Division of Research Policy and Plan, National Research Council of Thailand, Bangkok 10900, Thailand
  • 27 Department of General and Applied Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, Sofia University, 1164 g.k. Lozenets, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 28 Animal and Plant Sciences Group, Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill, Edinburgh EH11 4BN, UK
  • 29 Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL 33570, USA; Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL 33801, USA
  • 30 Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater Research, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-750 07 Drottningholm, Sweden
  • 31 Hydrobiology section, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hacettepe University, Çankaya-Ankara 06800, Turkey
  • 32 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, UK
  • 33 Centre for Ecological Research, Balaton Limnological Institute, Tihany 8237, Hungary
  • 34 Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
  • 35 Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4YW, UK
  • 36 Institute for Natural Resources Conservation, Department of Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Szent István University, Gödöllő 2100, Hungary
  • 37 Department of Natural Resources, Environment and Landscape, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
  • 38 Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques, BOREA (MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Caen, IRD, Université de Guadeloupe Antilles), Station Marine de Dinard, CRESCO, 35800 Dinard, France
  • 39 Laboratory of Ichthyology, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • 40 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Menteşe, Muğla, Turkey
  • 41 Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Research Center for the Natural and Applied Sciences, Graduate School, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, 1008, Metro Manila, Philippines
  • 42 Department of Applied Ecology, University of Dubrovnik, 20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • 43 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Mont-Joli, Quebec G5H 3Z4, Canada; Arctic and Aquatic Research Division, Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, Quebec MB R3T 2N6, Canada
  • 44 GoConsult, 22763 Hamburg, Germany
  • 45 Scientific Direction, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), 44980 Nantes, France
  • 46 Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, 63571 Gelnhausen, Germany; Nature and Environment Management Operators s.r.l., 50121 Florence, Italy; Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
  • 47 The Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
  • 48 DST/NRF Research Chair in Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa; GroundTruth, Water, Wetlands and Environmental Engineering, Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal 3245, South Africa
  • 49 Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
  • 50 Arctic and Aquatic Research Division, Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, Quebec MB R3T 2N6, Canada
  • 51 Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
  • 52 Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia; Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; Novosibirsk branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
  • 53 Department of Ecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 841 04 Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 54 Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen Research Station, NO-7485 His, Norway
  • 55 Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
  • 56 Department of Ecology and Biogeography, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
  • 57 Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Salaya 73170, Thailand
  • 58 College of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Republic of Korea
  • 59 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science, Düzce University, 81620 Düzce, Turkey
  • 60 Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Praha, Czechia
  • 61 Department of Fisheries, Institute of Animal Science, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje 1000, Macedonia
  • 62 Institute of Marine Biological Resources & Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavissos, 19013, Attica, Greece
  • 63 Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695034, India
  • 64 REF Division, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal 700120, India
  • 65 Fishery Research Laboratory, Kyushu University, Fukutsu, Fukuoka 811-3304, Japan
  • 66 Department of Biology, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
  • 67 Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7TX, England, United Kingdom
  • 68 Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
  • 69 Hierofalcon Research Group, 95124 Catania, Italy
  • 70 Department of Animal Ecology and Physiology, Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Radboud University & Netherlands Centre of Expertise on Exotic Species, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands
  • 71 Natural History Research Center, Shanghai Natural History Museum, Branch of Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai 200041, China
  • 72 Laboratory of Hydrobiology, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk 220072, Belarus
  • 73 Aquatic Science Institute, Tibet Academy of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Science, Lhasa 850009, China
  • 74 Lloyd Environmental Pty Ltd, Somers, Victoria 3927, Australia; School of Health and Life Sciences, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria 3350, Australia
  • 75 Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnologies, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
  • 76 Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Nuevo León 66455, Mexico
  • 77 Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory, Program in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Ruskin, FL 33570, USA; New Mexico Biopark Society, Albuquerque, NM 87102, USA
  • 78 South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa; University of Battambang, 02360 Battambang, Cambodia
  • 79 Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (VKM), NO-0213 Oslo, Norway
  • 80 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
  • 81 DST/NRF Research Chair in Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
  • 82 Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des environnements continentaux, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Université de Lorraine, 57000 Metz, France
  • 83 Freshwater Fish Ecology Laboratory, Ecosystem Science and Management Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia V2N 4Z9, Canada
  • 84 Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1A 5J7, Canada
  • 85 Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constanta, Constanta 900527, Romania
  • 86 Marine Organism Investigations, Marina Village, Ballina, Killaloe, Clare V94 767X, Ireland; Marine Research Institute, Klaipėda University, 92294 Klaipėda, Lithuania
  • 87 Department of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Management, Environmental Sciences Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, 1983963113 Tehran, Iran
  • 88 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Biological Invasions Directorate, Pretoria 0001, South Africa; Department of Biology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Gauteng 0208, South Africa; Young Water Professionals, South African Chapter, Limpopo 1685, South Africa
  • 89 Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia
  • 90 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Division of Coastal Research, SE-453 30 Oregrund, Sweden
  • 91 Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ege University, 35040 Izmir, Turkey
  • 92 Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Tulcea 820112, Romania
  • 93 Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 8M5, Canada
  • 94 Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Poole BH12 5BB, UK
  • 95 University of Tartu, 80012 Pärnu, Estonia; National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
  • 96 Marine Research Institute, Klaipėda University, 92294 Klaipėda, Lithuania
  • 97 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK; School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel; The Inter-University Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Coral Beach, Eilat 8810302, Israel
  • 98 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Coastal Fisheries, 4200 Smith School Rd., Austin, TX 78744, USA
  • 99 CNR-IRSA Water Research Institute, 28922 Verbania, Italy
  • 100 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação Tecnologia e Inovação (ARDITI), 9020-105 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; CIBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO Associate Laboratory and Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, University of the Azores, 9500-321 Ponta Delgada, Portugal
  • 101 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Mont-Joli, Quebec G5H 3Z4, Canada
  • 102 Department of Fisheries, Regional Unit of Thesprotia, Epirus, 46 100, Igoumenitsa, Greece
  • 103 Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Electronic address: mpiria@agr.hr
  • 104 Pôle écohydraulique OFB-IMFT-P, French Agency for Biodiversity, 31400 Toulouse, France
  • 105 Sahel Square, Tehran 1493889881, Iran
  • 106 Department of Fisheries, Apiculture, Wildlife Management and Special Zoology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Agriculture, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
  • 107 Sari Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Sari, 4816118771, Mazandaran, Iran
  • 108 Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 695034, India; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore 560065, India
  • 109 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, USA
  • 110 Institute of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, 1000 Skopje, Macedonia
  • 111 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Panamá
  • 112 Modelling, Evidence and Policy Group, School of Natural and Environmental Resources, Newcastle University, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK
  • 113 Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Vietnam Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 10 Ton That Thuyet, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, Viet Nam; Flora and Fauna Division, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Palmerston, Northern Territory 0828, Australia
  • 114 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Seri Kembangan, Selangor, Malaysia; School of Agriculture, Lagos State University, Epe Campus, 106101 Epe, Lagos State, Nigeria
  • 115 Department of Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, Burapha University, Chon Buri 20130, Thailand
  • 116 Faculty of Biology & Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković", University of Belgrade, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
  • 117 University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Oceanography and Geography, Institute of Oceanography, Professor Krzysztof Skóra Hel Marine Station, 84-150 Hel, Poland
  • 118 Dadoda S.r.l.s, 70029 Santeramo in colle, Italy
  • 119 Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Weymouth, Dorset DT4 8UB, UK; APEM Ltd, A17 Embankment, Business Park, Heaton Mersey, Manchester, Cheshire SK4 3GN, UK
  • 120 Division of Mariculture, Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Cochin, Kerala 682018, India
  • 121 Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Agency, Vietnam Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, 10 Ton That Thuyet, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, Viet Nam
  • 122 Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland; Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000 Menteşe, Muğla, Turkey
  • 123 Department of Biology, University of Pisa, 56126 Pisa, Italy
  • 124 Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia V9T 6N7, Canada
  • 125 Institute of Oceanography, Federal University of Rio Grande, 96203-900 Rio Grande, Brazil
  • 126 Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Attica, Anavyssos 19013, Greece
  • 127 Laboratory for Ichthyology and Coastal Fisheries, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, 21000 Split, Croatia
  • 128 Skretting Turkey, Güllük Milas, 48670, Muğla, Turkey
  • 129 Norwegian Research Centre, 5007 Bergen, Norway; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, 5007 Bergen, Norway
  • 130 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), B-1630 Linkebeek, Belgium
  • 131 Institute of Botany, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
  • 132 Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Science, Guangzhou 510380, China; Key Laboratory of Recreational fisheries Research, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Guangzhou 510380, China
  • 133 Centre for Invasion Biology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda 6139, South Africa; DST/NRF Research Chair in Inland Fisheries and Freshwater Ecology, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
  • 134 Department of Biodiversity Studies and Bioeducation, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
  • 135 College of Fisheries, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
  • 136 PML Applications Ltd, Plymouth, Devon PL1 3DH, UK
  • 137 Aquaculture Technology Promotion Station of Nantong, Nantong, China
Sci Total Environ, 2021 Sep 20;788:147868.
PMID: 34134389 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147868

Abstract

The threat posed by invasive non-native species worldwide requires a global approach to identify which introduced species are likely to pose an elevated risk of impact to native species and ecosystems. To inform policy, stakeholders and management decisions on global threats to aquatic ecosystems, 195 assessors representing 120 risk assessment areas across all six inhabited continents screened 819 non-native species from 15 groups of aquatic organisms (freshwater, brackish, marine plants and animals) using the Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit. This multi-lingual decision-support tool for the risk screening of aquatic organisms provides assessors with risk scores for a species under current and future climate change conditions that, following a statistically based calibration, permits the accurate classification of species into high-, medium- and low-risk categories under current and predicted climate conditions. The 1730 screenings undertaken encompassed wide geographical areas (regions, political entities, parts thereof, water bodies, river basins, lake drainage basins, and marine regions), which permitted thresholds to be identified for almost all aquatic organismal groups screened as well as for tropical, temperate and continental climate classes, and for tropical and temperate marine ecoregions. In total, 33 species were identified as posing a 'very high risk' of being or becoming invasive, and the scores of several of these species under current climate increased under future climate conditions, primarily due to their wide thermal tolerances. The risk thresholds determined for taxonomic groups and climate zones provide a basis against which area-specific or climate-based calibrated thresholds may be interpreted. In turn, the risk rankings help decision-makers identify which species require an immediate 'rapid' management action (e.g. eradication, control) to avoid or mitigate adverse impacts, which require a full risk assessment, and which are to be restricted or banned with regard to importation and/or sale as ornamental or aquarium/fishery enhancement.

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