Table 2.

The different market and/or activity sectors mentioned in InvaCost.

Sector	Description
Agriculture	Considered at its broadest sense, food and other useful products produced by human activities through using natural and/plant resources from their ecosystems (e.g. crop growing, livestock breeding, beekeeping, land management)
Authorities-Stakeholders	Governmental services and/or official organisations (e.g. conservation agencies, forest services, associations) that allocate efforts for the management sensu lato of biological invasions (e.g. control programs, eradication campaigns, research funding)
Environment	Impacts on natural resources, ecological processes and/or ecosystem services that have been valued by authors such as disruption of native habitats or degradation of local habitats
Fishery	Fish-based activities and services such as fishing and aquaculture
Forestry	Forest-based activities and services such as timber production/industries and private forests
Health	Every item directly or indirectly related to the sanitary state of people such as vector control, medical care and other derived damage on human productivity
Public and social welfare	Activities, goods or services contributing - directly or indirectly - to the human well-being and safety in our societies, including local infrastructures (e.g. electric system), quality of life (e.g. income, recreational activities), personal goods (e.g. private properties, lands), public services (e.g. transports, water regulation), and market activities (e.g. tourism, trade)

Note that most of the cost estimates recorded in the database are associated with more than a single sector and are thus reported as slash-separated lists of sectors.