title: Invasion Science: A Horizon Scan of Emerging Challenges and Opportunities.
abstract: We identified emerging scientific, technological, and sociopolitical issues likely to affect how biological invasions are studied and managed over the next two decades. Issues were ranked according to their probability of emergence, pervasiveness, potential impact, and novelty. Top-ranked issues include the application of genomic modification tools to control invasions, effects of Arctic globalization on invasion risk in the Northern Hemisphere, commercial use of microbes to facilitate crop production, the emergence of invasive microbial pathogens, and the fate of intercontinental trade agreements. These diverse issues suggest an expanding interdisciplinary role for invasion science in biosecurity and ecosystem management, burgeoning applications of biotechnology in alien species detection and control, and new frontiers in the microbial ecology of invasions.
authors.affiliation: Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, Canada; Workshop organizers.. Electronic address: tony.ricciardi@mcgill.ca.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ricciardi
authors.affiliation: Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4RY, UK.
authors.forename: Tim M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Blackburn
authors.affiliation: Maritime Studies Program, Williams College-Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville, Mystic, CT 06355, USA.
authors.forename: James T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Carlton
authors.affiliation: Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, MBC, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
authors.forename: Jaimie T A
authors.initials: JTA
authors.lastname: Dick
authors.affiliation: Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, PO Box 85840, Lincoln 7647, Canterbury, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Philip E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Hulme
authors.affiliation: University of Victoria, Biology Department, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada.
authors.forename: Josephine C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Iacarella
authors.affiliation: Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, 12587 Berlin, Germany; Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Str. 1-3, 14195 Berlin, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Jonathan M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Jeschke
authors.affiliation: US Forest Service Northern Research Station, 180 Canfield St., Morgantown, WV, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Liebhold
authors.affiliation: Rutgers University, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, 14 College Farm, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
authors.forename: Julie L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Lockwood
authors.affiliation: Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ONT, N9B 3P4, Canada.
authors.forename: Hugh J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: MacIsaac
authors.affiliation: Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic; Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Viničná 7, CZ-12844 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pyšek
authors.affiliation: Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Richardson
authors.affiliation: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA.
authors.forename: Gregory M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Ruiz
authors.affiliation: University of Tennessee, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Simberloff
authors.affiliation: Cambridge University, Department of Zoology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Sutherland
authors.affiliation: Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE901-83 Umeå, Sweden; Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Wardle
authors.affiliation: Cambridge University, Department of Zoology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK; Workshop organizers.
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Aldridge
mesh_terms: D017753:Ecosystem; D058865:Introduced Species
keywords: Arctic globalization; gene drives; global change; invasive species; microbial ecology; rapid evolution