Building a synthesis of economic costs of biological invasions in New Zealand

Funding: This work was funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-14-CE02-0021) and the BNP-Paribas Foundation Climate Initiative for funding the InvaCost project that allowed the construction of the InvaCost database. The present work was conducted following a workshop funded by the AXA Research Fund Chair of Invasion Biology and is part of the AlienScenario project funded by BiodivERsA and Belmont-Forum call 2018 on biodiversity scenarios. Thomas W. Bodey was funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (Grant No. 747120). Zachary T. Carter was funded by a New Zealand International Doctoral Research scholarship. Ross N. Cuthbert was funded by Humboldt Fellowship funding from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Christophe Diagne was funded by the BiodivERsA-Belmont Forum Project “Alien Scenarios” (BMBF/PT DLR 01LC1807C). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Licence: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD