RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 United States wildlife and wildlife product imports from 2000-2014
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 780197
DO 10.1101/780197
A1 Evan A. Eskew
A1 Allison M. White
A1 Noam Ross
A1 Kristine M. Smith
A1 Katherine F. Smith
A1 Jon Paul Rodríguez
A1 Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio
A1 William B. Karesh
A1 Peter Daszak
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/09/24/780197.abstract
AB The global wildlife trade network is a massive system that has been shown to threaten biodiversity conservation, introduce non-native species and pathogens, and cause chronic animal welfare concerns. Despite its scale and impact, comprehensive characterization of the global wildlife trade is hampered by data that are limited in their temporal or taxonomic scope and detail. To help fill this gap, we present data on 15 years of the importation of wildlife and their derived products into the United States (2000-2014), originally collected by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. We curated and cleaned the data and added taxonomic information to improve data usability. These data include > 2 million wildlife or wildlife product shipments, representing > 60 biological classes and > 3.2 billion live organisms. These data will be broadly useful to both scientists and policymakers seeking to better understand the volume, sources, biological composition, and potential risks of the global wildlife trade.