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Invasive Alien Plants in Protected Areas in Mediterranean Islands: Knowledge Gaps and Main Threats

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Protected areas in the Mediterranean islands (PAMIs) hold a unique level of biodiversity and are very sensitive to all human-generated environmental changes, including their synergies. There is a general lack of information on the presence and abundance of invasive plants for the whole set of PAMIs, which are more commonly considered at country level and very rarely as a whole. This is a serious hindrance for management at international levels. Available information on a selected set of PAMIs, key invasive alien plants and their impacts are briefly reported in this chapter. Given the negative ecological and socioeconomic impacts of many invasive alien plants on PAMIs, their management has become an important challenge and a high priority for the conservation of native species and natural areas in the Mediterranean. Specific policies and strategies, including a dedicated definition of priorities, are urgently needed.

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Acknowledgments

Several people provided very useful information for the preparation of this chapter, as many activities and data on plant invasions in PAs on Mediterranean islands are available only in ‘grey literature’ and local reports or not published yet. I therefore gratefully acknowledge for fruitful discussions and for the information provided: Margarita Arianoutsou-Faragitaki, Yiannis Bazos, Fabrice Bernard, Igor Boršić, Sarah Brunel, Ignazio Camarda, Lucilla Carnevalli, Laura Celesti-Grapow, Katija Dolina, Gianniantonio Domina, Bruno Foggi, Piero Genovesi, Costas Kadis, Luka Katušić, Daniel Jeanmonod, Isabel Lorenzo Iñigo, Isabelle Mandon, Pietro Mazzola, Frederic Mèdail, Eva Moragues, Daniel Pavon, Francesca Pretto, Bernard Recorbet, Carl Smith, Paolo Sposimo, Anna Traveset, Errol Vela. Two anonymous reviewers greatly helped in improving the paper.

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Brundu, G. (2013). Invasive Alien Plants in Protected Areas in Mediterranean Islands: Knowledge Gaps and Main Threats. In: Foxcroft, L., Pyšek, P., Richardson, D., Genovesi, P. (eds) Plant Invasions in Protected Areas. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_18

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