Pest Risk Modelling and Mapping for Invasive Alien Species

Robert C. Venette, USDA Forest Service, USA

• 0: Preface 1: The Challenge of Modelling and Mapping the Future Distribution and Impact of Invasive Alien Species 2: Mapping Endangered Areas for Pest Risk Analysis 3: Following the Transportation Trail to Anticipate Human-mediated Invasions in Terrestrial Ecosystems 4: Simulation Modelling of Long-distance Windborne Dispersal for Invasion Ecology 5: Using the MAXENT Program for Species Distribution Modelling to Assess Invasion Risk 6: The NCSU/APHIS Plant Pest Forecasting System (nappfast) 7: Detecting and Interpreting Patterns within Regional Pest Species Assemblages using Self-organizing Maps and Other Clustering Methods 8: Modelling the Spread of Invasive Species to Support Pest Risk Assessment: Principles and Application of a Suite of Generic Models 9: Estimating Spread Rates of Non-native Species: The Gypsy Moth as a Case Study 10: Predicting the Economic Impacts of Invasive Species: The Eradication of the Giant Sensitive Plant from Western Australia 11: Spatial Modelling Approaches for Understanding and Predicting the Impacts of Invasive Alien Species on Native Species and Ecosystems 12: Process-based Pest Risk Mapping using Bayesian Networks and GIS 13: Identifying and Assessing Critical Uncertainty Thresholds in a Forest Pest Risk Model 14: Making Invasion Models Useful for Decision Makers: Incorporating Uncertainty, Knowledge Gaps and Decision-making Preferences 15: Assessing the Quality of Pest Risk Models