Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social, and Legal Perspectives on Policy

427 Pages·2014·3.289 MB·English

by  Reuben P. Keller, Marc W. Cadotte, Glenn Sandiford

Invasive Species in a
Globalized World

Invasive Species in a
Globalized World
Ecological, Social, and Legal
Perspectives on Policy
edited by reuben p. keller,
marc w. cadotte, and glenn
sandiford
the university of chicago press chicago and london
reuben p. keller is assistant professor of environmental science at Loyola University
Chicago. marc w. cadotte is the TD Professor of Urban Forest Conservation and Biology
at the University of Toronto Scarborough. glenn sandiford is an adjunct instructor in the
Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois in Urbana-
Champaign.
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Invasive species in a globalized world : ecological, social, and legal perspectives on
policy / edited by Reuben P. Keller, Marc W. Cadotte, and Glenn Sandiford.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-226-16604-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-226-16618-6 (pbk. : alk.
paper) — isbn 978-0-226-16621-6 (e-book) 1. Biological invasions. 2. Introduced
organisms. I. Keller, Reuben P. II. Cadotte, Marc William, 1975–
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Contents
chapter 1 Working across Disciplines to Understand and Manage
Invasive Species 1
R. P. Keller, M. Cadotte, G. Sandiford
section 1 introduction
Of Toads, Squirrels, Carps, and Kids: How Science
and Human Perceptions Drive Our Responses to Invasive
Species
chapter 2 The Ecological, Evolutionary, and Social Impact of
Invasive Cane Toads in Australia 23
R. Shine
chapter 3 A Tale of Two Squirrels: A British Case Study of the
Sociocultural Dimensions of Debates over Invasive
Species 44
P. Coates
chapter 4 Fish Tales: Optimism and Other Bias in Rhetoric about
Exotic Carps in America 72
G. Sandiford
chapter 5 “Sooper” Impact: Drawing the Attention of Kids to the
Dangers of Invasive Species 99
M. Newman
section 11 introduction
Here They Come: Understanding and Managing the
Introduction of Invasive Species
vi contents
chapter 6 Patterns of Live Vertebrate Importation into the United
States: Analysis of an Invasion Pathway 115
C. Romagosa
chapter 7 All in the Family: Relatedness and the Success of
Introduced Species 147
M. Cadotte, L. Jin
chapter 8 Reducing Damaging Introductions from International
Species Trade through Invasion Risk Assessment 163
M. Springborn
section 111 introduction
Controlling the Bad: Reducing the Impacts of Established
Invaders
chapter 9 Evaluating the Economic Costs and Benefits of Slowing
the Spread of Emerald Ash Borer 185
J. Bossenbroek, A. Croskey, D. Finnoff, L. Iverson, S.
McDermott, A. Prasad, C. Sims, D. Sydnor
chapter 10 Climate Change Challenges in the Management of
Invasive Sea Lamprey in Lake Superior 209
J. Kitchell, T. Cline, V. Bennington, G. McKinley
chapter 11 Ecological Separation without Hydraulic Separation:
Engineering Solutions to Control Invasive Common Carp
in Australian Rivers 233
Robert Keller
chapter 12 Does Enemy Release Contribute to the Success of
Invasive Species? A Review of the Enemy Release
Hypothesis 252
K. Prior, J. Hellmann
section 1v introduction
Where To from Here? Policy Prospects at International,
National, and Regional Levels
chapter 13 From Global to Local: Integrating Policy Frameworks for
the Prevention and Management of Invasive Species 283
S. Burgiel
contents vii
chapter 14 Developing Invasive Species Policy for a Major Free
Trade Bloc: Challenges and Progress in the European
Union 303
C. Shine
chapter 15 There Ought to Be a Law! The Peculiar Absence of Broad
Federal Harmful Nonindigenous Species Legislation 327
M. Miller
chapter 16 Pathways toward a Policy of Preventing New Great Lakes
Invasions 356
J. Brammeier, T. Cmar
chapter 17 Final Thoughts: Nature and Human Nature 381
G. Sandiford, R. P. Keller, M. Cadotte
Index 395
A gallery of photographs follows page 184.

chapter one
Working across Disciplines to
Understand and Manage Invasive
Species
Reuben P. Keller, Marc Cadotte, and Glenn Sandiford
Snakeheads in Maryland
In the summer of 2002, an Asian fish that the US Secretary of the Inte-
rior said was “like something from a bad horror movie” briefly became
headline news all over America (US Fish and Wildlife Service 2002). The
“fish from hell” (Fig. 1–1) generated hundreds of news stories, ranging
from analysis on PBS’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” to satire by Jon
Stewart on Comedy Central. David Letterman featured it on one of his
Top Ten lists (Dolin 2002). The snakehead invasion, and the way that it
was reported by journalists, so captured the public imagination that it has
been used as the inspiration for no fewer than three horror movies.
The catalyst for this media frenzy was an 18-inch fish caught by an
angler in a suburban pond twenty miles outside Washington, DC. The
strange-looking fish had a mouthful of sharp teeth, and dorsal and anal fins
running along most of its elongated body. It was soon identified as a north-
ern snakehead (Channa argus). Native to rivers in China, the northern
snakehead is a lie-in-wait predator that can surpass three feet in length. It
is one of 28 snakehead species, many of them prized in their native ranges
in Asia for sport and food (Fuller et al. 2013).
Several northern snakeheads had recently been caught in US waters.
Officials presumed them to be aquarial specimens released illegally into
the wild, as proved to be the case in Maryland. Northern snakeheads were