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Abstract
Non-native species monitoring faces global challenges due to resource disparities, hindering effective implementation. Current strategies are fragmented and resource-dependent, inadequately addressing non-native species dynamics and are subjected to reporting biases, being further ridiculed by political borders. To overcome these challenges, a paradigm shift towards targeted, large-scale monitoring is crucial, requiring standardized protocols and advanced technologies like environmental DNA analysis, orchestrated, applied—and enforced—following international collaboration. Despite existing efforts, networks, and laws, even larger political entities like the European Union suffer from the lack of information exchange as well as economic, political, and socio-cultural differences among member status, ultimately hampering united efforts against the threat posed by non-native species. The absence of a comprehensive central hub and authority, guided by scientific input and at the same time empowered by being a political institution, emerges as a compelling solution. Despite potential drawbacks, this institution, possibly bridging gaps in the large-scale approach, could coordinate efforts, standardize reporting, allocate resources, and advocate increased funding. Considering rising introduction rates and accelerating impacts from non-native species, creating a centralized institution becomes imperative for enhancing global non-native species monitoring and management to foster a collaborative response to non-native species threats.
由于资源差异,非本地物种监测面临全球性挑战,阻碍了有效实施。目前的战略支离破碎,依赖资源,不能充分应对非本地物种的动态变化,而且受到报告偏见的影响,更受到政治边界的嘲弄。要克服这些挑战,必须转变模式,进行有针对性的大规模监测,这需要标准化的协议和先进的技术(如环境 DNA 分析),并在国际合作下协调、应用和执行。尽管已有努力、网络和法律,但即使是像欧盟这样的大型政治实体,也因缺乏信息交流以及成员国之间的经济、政治和社会文化差异而受到影响,最终阻碍了应对非本地物种威胁的联合努力。缺乏一个以科学意见为指导,同时又因其政治体制而获得权力的综合性中央枢纽和权威机构,是一个令人信服的解决方案。尽管存在潜在的缺陷,但这一机构有可能弥补大规模方法中的不足,可以协调工作、规范报告、分配资源并倡导增加资金。考虑到非本地物种引进率的不断上升和影响的加速,建立一个中央机构对于加强全球非本地物种的监测和管理,促进对非本地物种威胁的合作应对,变得势在必行。
期刊介绍:
ESEU is an international journal, focusing primarily on Europe, with a broad scope covering all aspects of environmental sciences, including the main topic regulation.
ESEU will discuss the entanglement between environmental sciences and regulation because, in recent years, there have been misunderstandings and even disagreement between stakeholders in these two areas. ESEU will help to improve the comprehension of issues between environmental sciences and regulation.
ESEU will be an outlet from the German-speaking (DACH) countries to Europe and an inlet from Europe to the DACH countries regarding environmental sciences and regulation.
Moreover, ESEU will facilitate the exchange of ideas and interaction between Europe and the DACH countries regarding environmental regulatory issues.
Although Europe is at the center of ESEU, the journal will not exclude the rest of the world, because regulatory issues pertaining to environmental sciences can be fully seen only from a global perspective.