Invasive Alien Plants in Protected Areas in Mediterranean Islands: Knowledge Gaps and Main Threats

摘要: Protected areas in the Mediterranean islands (PAMIs) hold a unique level of biodiversity and are very sensitive to all human-generated environmental changes, including their synergies. There is general lack information on presence abundance invasive plants for whole set PAMIs, which more commonly considered at country rarely as whole. This serious hindrance management international levels. Available selected key alien impacts briefly reported this chapter. Given negative ecological socioeconomic many has become an important challenge high priority conservation native species natural Mediterranean. Specific policies strategies, dedicated definition priorities, urgently needed.