When pets become pests : the role of the exotic pet trade in producing invasive vertebrate animals

dc.contributor.authorLockwood, Julie L.
dc.contributor.authorWelbourne, Dustin J.
dc.contributor.authorRomagosa, Christina M.
dc.contributor.authorCassey, Phillip
dc.contributor.authorMandrak, Nicholas E.
dc.contributor.authorStrecker, Angela
dc.contributor.authorLeung, Brian
dc.contributor.authorStringham, Oliver C.
dc.contributor.authorUdell, Bradley
dc.contributor.authorEpiscopio-Sturgeon, Diane J.
dc.contributor.authorTlusty, Michael F.
dc.contributor.authorSinclair, James
dc.contributor.authorSpringborn, Michael R.
dc.contributor.authorPienaar, Elizabeth Frances
dc.contributor.authorRhyne, Andrew L.
dc.contributor.authorKeller, Reuben
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-11T11:54:25Z
dc.date.available2019-06-11T11:54:25Z
dc.date.issued2019-08
dc.description.abstractThe annual trade in exotic vertebrates as pets is a multi‐billion‐dollar global business. Thousands of species, and tens of millions of individual animals, are shipped both internationally and within countries to satisfy this demand. Most research on the exotic pet trade has focused on its contribution to native biodiversity loss and disease spread. Here, we synthesize information across taxa and research disciplines to document the exotic pet trade's contribution to vertebrate biological invasions. We show recent and substantial worldwide growth in the number of non‐native animal populations introduced via this invasion pathway, which demonstrates a strong potential to increase the number of invasive animals in the future. Key to addressing the invasion threat of exotic pets is learning more about the socioeconomic forces that drive the massive growth in the exotic pet market and the socioecological factors that underlie pet release by owners. These factors likely vary according to cultural pet‐keeping traditions across regions and whether purchases were legal or illegal. These gaps in our understanding of the exotic pet trade must be addressed in order to implement effective policy solutions.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentMammal Research Instituteen_ZA
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the National Socio‐Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) under funding received from the US National Science Foundation (DBI‐1052875), and from Centre for Invasive Species Solutions project funding (PO1‐I‐002: “Understanding and intervening in illegal trade in non‐native species”).en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15409309en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationLockwood, J.L., Welbourne, D.J., Romagosa, C.M. et al. 2019, 'When pets become pests: the role of the exotic pet trade in producing invasive vertebrate animals', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 323-330.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1540-9295 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1540-9309 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1002/fee.2059
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/70145
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWileyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2019 The Authors. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment published by Wiley Periodicals Inc. on behalf of the Ecological Society of America. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License.en_ZA
dc.subjectExotic pet tradeen_ZA
dc.subjectVertebrate biological invasionsen_ZA
dc.subjectNon‐native animal populationsen_ZA
dc.subjectInvasive animalsen_ZA
dc.subjectSocioeconomic forcesen_ZA
dc.subjectSocioecological factorsen_ZA
dc.titleWhen pets become pests : the role of the exotic pet trade in producing invasive vertebrate animalsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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