Table 3 Quantitative summary of information recorded in InvaCost according to the ‘Geographic region’ of the cost estimates.
From: InvaCost, a public database of the economic costs of biological invasions worldwide
Geographic regions | Number of materials | Number of cost estimates | Number of high reliability estimates | Number of taxonomic units |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Africa | 46 | 182 | 163 | 51 |
Asia | 75 | 132 | 111 | 20 |
Central America | 29 | 61 | 51 | 9 |
Europe | 102 | 338 | 255 | 89 |
Mixed | 33 | 38 | 30 | 19 |
North America | 316 | 716 | 438 | 139 |
Oceania-Pacific islands | 272 | 867 | 646 | 129 |
South America | 45 | 85 | 75 | 16 |
