Invasive species increase biodiversity and, therefore, services: An argument of equivocations

Abstract Some critics of invasion biology have argued the invasion of ecosystems by nonindigenous species can create more valuable ecosystems. They consider invaded communities as more valuable because they potentially produce more ecosystem services. To establish that the introduction of nonindigen...

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Autor principal:	Christopher Hunter Lean
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Publicado:	Wiley 2021
Materias:	beta‐diversity biodiversity ecosystem services invasive species invasive species scepticism option value Ecology QH540-549.5 General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution QH1-199.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:92f135b374e649329f7037a9d94f35292021-12-01T10:20:56ZInvasive species increase biodiversity and, therefore, services: An argument of equivocations2578-485410.1111/csp2.553https://doaj.org/article/92f135b374e649329f7037a9d94f35292021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.553https://doaj.org/toc/2578-4854Abstract Some critics of invasion biology have argued the invasion of ecosystems by nonindigenous species can create more valuable ecosystems. They consider invaded communities as more valuable because they potentially produce more ecosystem services. To establish that the introduction of nonindigenous species creates more valuable ecosystems, they defend that value is provisioned by ecosystem services. These services are derived from ecosystem productivity, the production and cycling of resources. Ecosystem productivity is a result of biodiversity, which is understood as local species richness. Invasive species increase local species richness and, therefore, increase the conservation value of local ecosystems. These views are disseminating to the public via a series of popular science books. Conservationists must respond to these views, and I outline a method of rejecting such arguments against controlling invasive species. Ecological systems are valuable for more than local productivity and biodiversity is not accurately described by a local species count.Christopher Hunter LeanWileyarticlebeta‐diversitybiodiversityecosystem servicesinvasive speciesinvasive species scepticismoption valueEcologyQH540-549.5General. Including nature conservation, geographical distributionQH1-199.5ENConservation Science and Practice, Vol 3, Iss 12, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
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spellingShingle	beta‐diversity biodiversity ecosystem services invasive species invasive species scepticism option value Ecology QH540-549.5 General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution QH1-199.5 Christopher Hunter Lean Invasive species increase biodiversity and, therefore, services: An argument of equivocations
description	Abstract Some critics of invasion biology have argued the invasion of ecosystems by nonindigenous species can create more valuable ecosystems. They consider invaded communities as more valuable because they potentially produce more ecosystem services. To establish that the introduction of nonindigenous species creates more valuable ecosystems, they defend that value is provisioned by ecosystem services. These services are derived from ecosystem productivity, the production and cycling of resources. Ecosystem productivity is a result of biodiversity, which is understood as local species richness. Invasive species increase local species richness and, therefore, increase the conservation value of local ecosystems. These views are disseminating to the public via a series of popular science books. Conservationists must respond to these views, and I outline a method of rejecting such arguments against controlling invasive species. Ecological systems are valuable for more than local productivity and biodiversity is not accurately described by a local species count.
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title_short	Invasive species increase biodiversity and, therefore, services: An argument of equivocations
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Invasive species increase biodiversity and, therefore, services: An argument of equivocations

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