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Does public awareness increase support for invasive species management? Promising evidence across taxa and landscape types

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Management of invasive species often raises substantial conflicts of interest. Since such conflicts can hamper proposed management actions, managers, decision makers and researchers increasingly recognize the need to consider the social dimensions of invasive species management. In this exploratory study, we aimed (1) to explore whether species’ taxonomic position (i.e. animals vs. plants) and type of invaded landscape (i.e. urban vs. non-urban) might influence public perception about the management of invasive species, and (2) to assess the potential of public awareness to increase public support for invasive species management. We reviewed the scientific literature on the conflicts of interest around the management of alien species and administered two-phased questionnaires (before and after providing information on the target species and its management) to members of the public in South Africa and the UK (n = 240). Our review suggests that lack of public support for the management of invasive animals in both urban and non-urban areas derives mainly from moralistic value disagreements, while the management of invasive plants in non-urban areas mostly causes conflicts based on utilitarian value disagreements. Despite these general trends, conflicts are context dependent and can originate from a wide variety of different views. Notably, informing the public about the invasive status and negative impacts of the species targeted for management appeared to increase public support for the management actions. Therefore, our results align with the view that increased public awareness might increase the public support for the management of invasive species, independent of taxonomic position and type of landscape.

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Funding was provided by the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology and Working for Water Programme through their collaborative research project on “Integrated management of invasive alien species in South Africa”, the South African National Department of Environmental Affairs through its funding of the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s Invasive Species Programme, the DST-NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative and the EcoDry Project. We acknowledge funding from the EcoDry project (EcoDry—Sharing Best Agroecological Practice for Resilient Production Systems in Dryland and Drought Conditions), an EU FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES project that enabled involved researchers to travel between South Africa and the UK. We are also grateful to Judith Conroy and Diego for helping to conduct the surveys and to Stephanie Barr and Stuart Livingstone for helping with the literature review. AN also acknowledges funding from Project No. 14-36079G Centre of Excellence PLADIAS (Czech Science Foundation) and long-term research development project RVO 67985939 (The Czech Academy of Sciences). Finally, we thank Brendon Larson and two anonymous reviewers for comments on an early version of the manuscript.

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  3. Department of Invasion Ecology, Institute of Botany, The Czech Academy of Sciences, 252 43, Průhonice, Czech Republic

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Novoa, A., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Fried, J. et al. Does public awareness increase support for invasive species management? Promising evidence across taxa and landscape types. Biol Invasions 19, 3691–3705 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1592-0

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