invasions in cities around the world, a Global Urban Biological Invasion Consortium
(GUBIC) has been established. Comprising more than 70 collaborators from at least
40 cities in 21 countries, GUBIC facilitates global communication and provides a
platform to synthesis and share data and develop management and policy frameworks.
Acknowledgments Support was provided by the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion
Biology and the National Research Foundation (grant 85417 to DMR).
Electronic Supplementary Material
The online version of this chapter contains supplementary material, which is available to authorised users: Supplementary Appendices 11.1 and 11.2 (https://doi.org/
10.5281/zenodo.3562067).
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(GUBIC) has been established. Comprising more than 70 collaborators from at least
40 cities in 21 countries, GUBIC facilitates global communication and provides a
platform to synthesis and share data and develop management and policy frameworks.
Acknowledgments Support was provided by the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion
Biology and the National Research Foundation (grant 85417 to DMR).
Electronic Supplementary Material
The online version of this chapter contains supplementary material, which is available to authorised users: Supplementary Appendices 11.1 and 11.2 (https://doi.org/
10.5281/zenodo.3562067).
References
al-Sallami S (1991) A possible role of crows in the spread of diarrhoeal diseases in Aden. J Egypt
Public Health Assoc 66:441–449
Alston KP, Richardson DM (2006) The roles of habitat features, disturbance, and distance from
putative source populations in structuring alien plant invasions at the urban/wildland interface
on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. Biol Conserv 132:183–198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
biocon.2006.03.023
Anderson PML, O’Farrell PJ (2012) An ecological view of the history of the establishment of the
City of Cape Town. Ecol Soc 17:28. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04970-170328
Aronson MFJ, Handel SN, Clemants SE (2007) Fruit type, life form and origin determine the
success of woody plant invaders in an urban landscape. Biol Invasions 9:465–475. https://doi.
org/10.1007/s10530-006-9053-1
Bacher S, Blackburn TM, Essl F et al (2018) Socio-economic impact classification of alien taxa
(SEICAT). Methods Ecol Evol 9:159–168. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12844
Barnard EL, Dixon WN (1983) Insects and diseases: important problems of Florida’s forest and
shade tree resources. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of
Forestry
Bastos AD, Nair D, Taylor PJ et al (2011) Genetic monitoring detects an overlooked cryptic species
and reveals the diversity and distribution of three invasive Rattus congeners in South Africa.
BMC Genet 12:26. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-12-26
Berruti A, Nichols G (1991) Alien birds in southern Africa: the crow must go. Birding Southern
Africa 43:52–57
Blackburn TM, Essl F, Evans T et al (2014) A unified classification of alien species based on the
magnitude of their environmental impacts. PLoS Biol 12:e1001850. https://doi.org/10.1371/
journal.pbio.1001850
Bouwman H, Symes C, Du Plessis H (2012) How to make 2.5 billion termites disappear? A case for
protecting the Amur Falcon. Falco amurensis. Ornithol Obs 3:232-242
Brooke RK, Lloyd PH, de Villiers AL (1986) Alien and translocated terrestrial vertebrates in
South Africa. In: Macdonald AW, Kruger FJ, Ferrar AA (eds) The ecology and management
of biological invasions in Southern Africa. Oxford University Press, Cape Town, pp 63–74
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