Dilara Arslan

Theme: Sustainable ecosystem management : Natural and Agricultural habitats

Contact: e-mail | Skype: Dilara Arslan

Joined our team: December 2018

Profiles: Research Gate | LinkedIn

Thesis subject

A comparative study of biodiversity between natural, urban, and intensive and extensive agriculture environments in the Gediz Delta, Turkey

Education

• PhD in Biology, Avignon Université (France)
• MSc in Biology, Ege University, Izmir (Turkey)
• BSc in Biology, Ege University, Izmir (Turkey)

Publications

Find below the most recent publications of Dilara Arslan, or see the full list on the Tour du Valat’s documentary web portal:

• de Phillip J. Haubrock, Anna J. Turbelin, Ross N. Cuthbert, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Elena Angulo, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Thomas W. Bodey, César Capinha, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 153-190 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[…] Biological invasions continue to threaten the stability of ecosystems and societies that are dependent on their services. Whilst the ecological impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) have been widely reported in recent decades, there remains a paucity of information concerning their economic impacts. Europe has strong trade and transport links with the rest of the world, facilitating hundreds of IAS incursions, and largely centralised decision-making frameworks. The present study is the first comprehensive and detailed effort that quantifies the costs of IAS collectively across European countries and examines temporal trends in these data. In addition, the distributions of costs across countries, socioeconomic sectors and taxonomic groups are examined, as are socio-economic correlates of management and damage costs. Total costs of IAS in Europe summed to US140.20billion(oreuro116.61billion)between1960and2020,withthemajority(60140.20billion(oreuro116.61billion)between1960and2020,withthemajority(60140.20 billion (or euro116.61 billion) between 1960 and 2020, with the majority (60%) being damage-related and impacting multiple sectors. Costs were also geographically widespread but dominated by impacts in large western and central European countries, i.e. the UK, Spain, France, and Germany. Human population size, land area, GDP, and tourism were significant predictors of invasion costs, with management costs additionally predicted by numbers of introduced species, research effort and trade. Temporally, invasion costs have increased exponentially through time, with up to US23.58 billion (euro19.64 billion) in 2013, and US$139.56 billion (euro116.24 billion) in impacts extrapolated in 2020. Importantly, although these costs are substantial, there remain knowledge gaps on several geographic and taxonomic scales, indicating that these costs are severely underestimated. We, thus, urge increased and improved cost reporting for economic impacts of IAS and coordinated international action to prevent further spread and mitigate impacts of IAS populations.
  de Phillip J. Haubrock, Anna J. Turbelin, Ross N. Cuthbert, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Elena Angulo, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Thomas W. Bodey, César Capinha, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 153-190 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[...] Biological invasions continue to threaten the ... read more
• Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe
  de Phillip J. Haubrock, Anna J. Turbelin, Ross N. Cuthbert, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Elena Angulo, Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia, Thomas W. Bodey, César Capinha, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 153-190 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[...] Biological invasions continue to threaten the ... read more
• Mapping wild fires in Prespa reedbeds. Use of BAIS2 Index and drone images (2021)
  de Loïc Wilm, F.-N Sakellarakis, Patrick Grillas Arles (FRA) : Tour du Valat, 2021, 21 + annex. Remote sensing techniques can provide tools for mapping hazards in natural ecosystems, including wildfire events, targeting accurate mapping of distribution as well as post-event monitoring and recovery. Since 2019, whole lakeshore mapping of ... read more
• Machine learning is a powerful tool to study the effect of cancer on species and ecosystems
  de Antoine M. Dujon, Marion Vittecoq, Georgina Bramwell, Frederic Thomas, Beata Ujvari In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Online (August, 2021), 2041-210X.13703 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Cancer is an understudied but important process in wildlife. Cancerous cells are proposed to have had significant effect ... read more
• Machine learning is a powerful tool to study the effect of cancer on species and ecosystems
  de Antoine M. Dujon, Marion Vittecoq, Georgina Bramwell, Frederic Thomas, Beata Ujvari In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Online (August, 2021), 2041-210X.13703 En ligne : onlinelibrary.wiley.com[...] Cancer is an understudied but important process in wildlife. Cancerous cells are proposed to have had significant effect ... read more
• de Melina Kourantidou, Ross N. Cuthbert, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Boris Leroy, César Capinha, D Renault, Elena Angulo, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 427-458 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[…] Invasive alien species (IAS) negatively impact the environment and undermine human well-being, often resulting in considerable economic costs. The Mediterranean basin is a culturally, socially and economically diverse region, harbouring many IAS that threaten economic and societal integrity in multiple ways. This paper is the first attempt to collectively quantify the reported economic costs of IAS in the Mediterranean basin, across a range of taxonomic, temporal and spatial descriptors. We identify correlates of costs from invasion damages and management expenditures among key socioeconomic variables, and determine network structures that link countries and invasive taxonomic groups. The total reported invasion costs in the Mediterranean basin amounted to $27.3 billion, or $3.6 billion when only realised costs were considered, and were found to have occurred over the last three decades. Our understanding of costs of invasions in the Mediterranean was largely limited to a few, primarily western European countries and to terrestrial ecosystems, despite the known presence of numerous high-impact aquatic invasive taxa. The vast majority of costs were attributed to damages or losses from invasions ($25.2 billion) and were mostly driven by France, Spain and to a lesser extent Italy and Libya, with significantly fewer costs attributed to management expenditure ($1.7 billion). Overall, invasion costs increased through time, with average annual costs between 1990 and 2017 estimated at $975.5 million. The lack of information from a large proportion of Mediterranean countries, reflected in the spatial and taxonomic connectivity analysis and the relationship of costs with socioeconomic variables, highlights the limits of the available data and the research effort needed to improve a collective understanding of the different facets of the costs of biological invasions. Our analysis of the reported costs associated with invasions in the Mediterranean sheds light on key knowledge gaps and provides a baseline for a Mediterranean-centric approach towards building policies and designing coordinated responses. In turn, these could help reach socially desirable outcomes and efficient use of resources invested in invasive species research and management.
  de Melina Kourantidou, Ross N. Cuthbert, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Boris Leroy, César Capinha, D Renault, Elena Angulo, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 427-458 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[...] Invasive alien species (IAS) negatively impact the environment ... read more
• Economic costs of invasive alien species in the Mediterranean basin
  de Melina Kourantidou, Ross N. Cuthbert, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ana Novoa, Nigel G. Taylor, Boris Leroy, César Capinha, D Renault, Elena Angulo, Christophe Diagne, et al. In NeoBiota, 67 (July, 2021), 427-458 En ligne : hal.archives-ouvertes.fr[...] Invasive alien species (IAS) negatively impact the environment ... read more
• Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management
  de Timothée Schwartz, Aurélien Besnard, Jesus M. Aviles, Teresa Catry, Andrzej Gorski, Orsolya Kiss, Deseada Parejo, Edmunds Račinskis, Laimonas Sniauksta, Milda Šniaukštienė, et al. In Oecologia, Online (August, 2021) En ligne : doi.org[...] Life-history theory predicts that animals should develop adaptive trade-offs between survival ... read more
• Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management
  de Timothée Schwartz, Aurélien Besnard, Jesus M. Aviles, Teresa Catry, Andrzej Gorski, Orsolya Kiss, Deseada Parejo, Edmunds Račinskis, Laimonas Sniauksta, Milda Šniaukštienė, et al. In Oecologia, Online (August, 2021) En ligne : doi.org[...] Life-history theory predicts that animals should develop adaptive trade-offs between survival ... read more
• Geographical variation in pace-of-life in a long-distance migratory bird: implications for population management
  de Timothée Schwartz, Aurélien Besnard, Jesus M. Aviles, Teresa Catry, Andrzej Gorski, Orsolya Kiss, Deseada Parejo, Edmunds Račinskis, Laimonas Sniauksta, Milda Šniaukštienė, et al. In Oecologia, Online (August, 2021) En ligne : doi.org[...] Life-history theory predicts that animals should develop adaptive trade-offs between survival ... read more