Rigid laws and invasive species management

Invasive Species Management and Research Using Gis

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are powerful tools in the field of invasive species management. GIS can be used to create potential distribution maps for all manner of taxa, including plants, animals, and diseases. GIS also performs well in the early detection and rapid assessment of invasive species. Here, we used GIS applications to investigate species richness and invasion patterns in...

Invasive Alien Species Management: A Personal Impasse

A Landscape Approach to Invasive Species Management

Biological invasions are not only a major threat to biodiversity, they also have major impacts on local economies and agricultural production systems. Once established, the connection of local populations into metapopulation networks facilitates dispersal at landscape scales, generating spatial dynamics that can impact the outcome of pest-management actions. Much planning goes into landscape-sc...

Invasive alien species on islands: impacts, distribution, interactions and management

THEMATIC SECTION Humans and Island Environments Invasive alien species on islands: impacts, distribution, interactions and management JAMES C. RUSSELL ∗1 , 2 , 3 , JEAN-YVES MEYER 4 , N I CK D . H O LME S 5 AND SHYAMA PAGAD 6 1School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand, 2Department of Statistics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019...

Hawkes Processes for Invasive Species Modeling and Management

The spread of invasive species to new areas threatens the stability of ecosystems and causes major economic losses in agriculture and forestry. We propose a novel approach to minimizing the spread of an invasive species given a limited intervention budget. We first model invasive species propagation using Hawkes processes, and then derive closed-form expressions for characterizing the effect of...