The £15 billion cost of ash dieback in Britain
| Autor: | Gabriel Hemery, Nick Brown, Nick Atkinson, Glyn Jones, Louise Hill, Andy Hector |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Financial costs Natural resource economics Biosecurity Hymenoscyphus fraxineus Forestry Biology General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Invasive species United Kingdom 03 medical and health sciences medicine.drug_formulation_ingredient Biosafety 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Ascomycota Fraxinus Economic cost medicine General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Plant Diseases |
| Popis: | Summary Invasive tree pests and diseases present some of the greatest global threats to forests, and the recent global acceleration in invasions has caused massive ecological damage 1 , 2 . Calls to improve biosecurity have, however, often lost out to economic arguments in favour of trade [3] . Human activities, such as trade, move organisms between continents, and interventions to reduce risk of introductions inevitably incur financial costs. No previous studies have attempted to estimate the full economic cost of a tree disease, and the economic imperative to improve biosecurity may have been underappreciated. We set out to estimate the cost of the dieback of ash, Fraxinus excelsior, caused by Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, in Great Britain, and investigate whether this may be the case [4] . |
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