Quantifying global colonization pressures of alien vertebrates from wildlife trade

Abstract The global trade in live wildlife elevates the risk of biological invasions by increasing colonization pressure (the number of alien species introduced to an area). Yet, our understanding of species traded as aliens remains limited. We created a comprehensive global database on live terrest...

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Main Authors: Yiming Li, Tim M. Blackburn, Zexu Luo, Tianjian Song, Freyja Watters, Wenhao Li, Teng Deng, Zhenhua Luo, Yuanyi Li, Jiacong Du, Meiling Niu, Jun Zhang, Jinyu Zhang, Jiaxue Yang, Siqi Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43754-6