SynthesisProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Invasiveness is linked to greater commercial success in the global pet trade.
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- Invasive goldfish trigger a regime shift in experimental lake ecosystems of varying trophic state.The Journal of animal ecology · 2026Article
- Regulatory compliance and support for altered management of the exotic pet trade.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Perception and Knowledge of Final-Year Veterinary Students About Exotic Pet Mammals.Veterinary sciences · 2025Article
- A mechanistic statistical approach to infer invasion characteristics of human-dispersed species with complex life cycle.Ecological monographs · 2025Article
- The magnitude of legal wildlife trade and implications for species survival.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Seasonal exchange of microsporidian parasites between native and non-native pet-traded freshwater crustaceans: Is parasite spillover favored over spillback?Parasite (Paris, France) · 2025Article
- Zoonotic bacteria in invasive California Kingsnake Lampropeltis californiae from Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain.PloS one · 2025Article
- A landscape analysis and one health approach to an invasive species pathway: Pet and aquaria trade in the eastern Caribbean.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- A Snapshot of the Global Trade of South African Native Vertebrate Species Not Listed on CITES.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Nationwide law enforcement impact on the pet bird trade in China.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- An Influx of Non-Native Bird Species into the Natural Environment Owing to the Accidental Release of Pet Birds in Japan.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Quantifying global colonization pressures of alien vertebrates from wildlife trade.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Human activities favour prolific life histories in both traded and introduced vertebrates.Nature communications · 2023Article
- The worldwide networks of spread of recorded alien species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Online classified adverts reflect the broader United Kingdom trade in turtles and tortoises rather than drive it.PloS one · 2023Article
- Predicting potential global and future distributions of the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) using species distribution models.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Home and hub: pet trade and traditional medicine impact reptile populations in source locations and destinations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Insect and plant invasions follow two waves of globalisation.Ecology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
The pet trade has become a multibillion-dollar global business, with tens of millions of animals traded annually. Pets are sometimes released by their owners or escape, and can become introduced outside of their native range, threatening biodiversity, agriculture, and health. So far, a comprehensive analysis of invasive species traded as pets is lacking. Here, using a unique dataset of 7,522 traded vertebrate species, we show that invasive species are strongly overrepresented in trade across mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish. However, it is unclear whether this occurs because, over time, pet species had more opportunities to become invasive, or because invasive species have a greater commercial success. To test this, we focused on the emergent pet trade in ants, which is too recent to be responsible for any invasions so far. Nevertheless, invasive ants were similarly overrepresented, demonstrating that the pet trade specifically favors invasive species. We show that ant species with the greatest commercial success tend to have larger spatial distributions and more generalist habitat requirements, both of which are also associated with invasiveness. Our findings call for an increased risk awareness regarding the international trade of wildlife species as pets.
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