Invasive termites and their growing global impact as major urban pests

IF 5.8 1区农林科学 Q1 BIOLOGY

Current opinion in insect science Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI:10.1016/j.cois.2025.101368

Thomas Chouvenc

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Abstract

While termites play important ecological roles, a fraction of species have strong invasive capabilities and represent urban pests of economic importance worldwide. Their invasive potential is exacerbated by human activities such as maritime transport, with privately owned boats serving as key vectors for local and global termite dispersal, particularly for Cryptotermes and Coptotermes pest species. Land establishment by invasive termites can remain undetected for decades, often making eradication attempts too late to succeed. Ultimately, invasive termite species will likely continue to spread at the global scale, and recent new invasive records point toward an underestimation of their actual current invasive status.

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入侵白蚁及其作为主要城市害虫日益增长的全球影响。

白蚁在生态环境中扮演着重要的角色，但也有部分物种具有很强的入侵能力，是世界范围内具有重要经济意义的城市害虫。人类活动（如海上运输）加剧了白蚁的入侵潜力，私人拥有的船只是当地和全球白蚁扩散的主要媒介，特别是对隐白蚁和白蚁有害物种。入侵的白蚁占据的土地可能几十年都不被发现，往往使根除努力太晚而无法成功。最终，入侵白蚁物种可能会继续在全球范围内传播，最近的新入侵记录表明，它们的实际入侵状态被低估了。

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Current opinion in insect science BIOLOGYECOLOGYENTOMOLOGY-ECOLOGY

CiteScore

10.40

自引率

1.90%

发文量

113

期刊介绍： Current Opinion in Insect Science is a new systematic review journal that aims to provide specialists with a unique and educational platform to keep up–to–date with the expanding volume of information published in the field of Insect Science. As this is such a broad discipline, we have determined themed sections each of which is reviewed once a year. The following 11 areas are covered by Current Opinion in Insect Science. -Ecology -Insect genomics -Global Change Biology -Molecular Physiology (Including Immunity) -Pests and Resistance -Parasites, Parasitoids and Biological Control -Behavioural Ecology -Development and Regulation -Social Insects -Neuroscience -Vectors and Medical and Veterinary Entomology There is also a section that changes every year to reflect hot topics in the field. Section Editors, who are major authorities in their area, are appointed by the Editors of the journal. They divide their section into a number of topics, ensuring that the field is comprehensively covered and that all issues of current importance are emphasized. Section Editors commission articles from leading scientists on each topic that they have selected and the commissioned authors write short review articles in which they present recent developments in their subject, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.