Allocating surveillance effort in the management of invasive species: A spatially-explicit model

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-454

  Cacho, Oscar J ^a   Spring, Daniel ^b   Hester, Susan ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detection; Economics; Eradication; Passive surveillance; Search theory

Indexed keywords

DETECTION RATES; ERADICATION; ERADICATION PROGRAMS; EXPLICIT MODELS; INVASIVE SPECIES; LONG DISTANCES; LOW DENSITY; PASSIVE DETECTION; PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE; PEST MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC AWARENESS; SEARCH THEORY; SIMULATION MODEL;

COST REDUCTION; MONITORING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

SIMULATORS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INVASIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DECLINE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY;

EID: 72249107967     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.10.014     Document Type: Article

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