Table 1.1
Numbers of naturalised or invasive alien species listed in this book. The totals for each chapter include both naturalised and invasive species, except
for the offshore Prince Edward Islands, where only invasive species are included
Chapter
Coverage
Number of naturalised or invasive species
Richardson et al. (2020b), Chap. 3
Terrestrial plants
759
Hill et al. (2020b), Chap. 4
Freshwater aquatic plants
19
Measey et al. (2020a), Chap. 5
Terrestrial vertebrates
30
Weyl et al. (2020), Chap. 6
Freshwater fauna
77
Janion-Scheepers and Griffiths (2020), Chap. 7
Terrestrial invertebrates
466
Greve et al. (2020), Chap. 8
Plants on offshore islands
17 (one of which is native to South Africa, and four are
also invasive on continental South Africa)
Greve et al. (2020), Chap. 8
Fauna on offshore islands
18 (two of which are native to South Africa, and 11 are
also invasive on continental South Africa)
Robinson et al. (2020), Chap. 9
Coastal marine species
56
Total (for South Africa)
All taxa
1422
20
B. W. van Wilgen et al.