Workshop participants agreed on the need for empirical

The gap

Evidence profile

Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2004 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 71 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Systematic and persistent bias against invasion science: Framing conservation scientists (2024) · BioScience · cited 11× · doi

  Rather, as research on invasions has burgeoned, an initial belief that very few nonnative species were problematic gradually shifted to the view that substantial numbers are problematic, that research for most nonnative species is still insufficient to yield a good sense of their impacts, that an increasing number of nonnative species initially seen as innocuous are impactful, and that many of these impacts are harmful.

  generalabstract
  Keywords: nonnative species problematic impacts rather invasions burgeoned initial belief gradually shifted view substantial numbers still
• Risk Analysis for Invasive Species: General Framework and Research Needs (2004) · Risk Analysis · cited 60× · doi

  Workshop participants agreed on the need for empirical research on areas in which data are lacking, including potential invasive species, native species and habitats that may be impacted by invasive species, important biological processes and phenomena such as dispersal, and pathways of entry and spread for invasive species.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: species invasive workshop participants agreed need empirical areas lacking including potential native habitats impacted important
• Disparate introduction histories but similar climatic distribution patterns among congeneric invasive anurans (2026) · bioRxiv · doi

  Commonly shared patterns of introduction and spread into new environmental conditions are often poorly understood, even though a better understanding of invasion history and niche dynamics among closely related invasive species could give practitioners valuable information to prevent and mitigate the impact of biological invasions.

  generalabstractevidence 3/5
  Keywords: commonly shared patterns introduction spread environmental conditions often poorly understood even though better understanding invasion

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