Streamlining 'search and destroy': Cost-effective surveillance for invasive species management

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 683-692

  Hauser, Cindy E ^a   McCarthy, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Detection; Hieracium aurantiacum; Invasive species; Monitoring; Nonindigenous species; Optimization; Pest management; Resource allocation; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INVASIVE SPECIES; OPTIMIZATION; PEST CONTROL; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTERACEAE; AUSTRALIA; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ASTERACEAE; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM;

EID: 66749110520     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01323.x     Document Type: Article

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