Socio-economic and environmental impacts of ants: data to support global assessments

Risk assessments are fundamental to invasive species management and are
underpinned by comprehensive characterization of invasive species impacts.
Our understanding of the impacts of invasive species is growing
constantly, and several recently developed frameworks offer the
opportunity to systematically categorize environmental and socio-economic
impacts of invasive species. Invasive ants are among the most widespread
and damaging invaders. We provide a global, comprehensive assessment on
the impacts of ants and propose a priority list of risk species. We used
the Socio-Economic Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (SEICAT),
Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) and Generic
Impact Scoring System (GISS) to analyse 642 unique sources for 100 named
species. This dataset includes the raw recrods on which our assessments
were based, and some summary data. Other data can be found in the
publication.