TEASIng apart alien species risk assessments: A framework for best practices

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1475-1493

  Leung, Brian ^a   Roura Pascual, Nuria ^b,c   Bacher, Sven ^d   Heikkilä, Jaakko ^e   Brotons, Lluis ^c   Burgman, Mark A ^f   Dehnen Schmutz, Katharina ^g   Essl, Franz ^h   Hulme, Philip E ⁱ   Richardson, David M ^j   Sol, Daniel ^k   Vilà, Montserrat ^l  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c Centre Tecnologic Forestal de Catalunya   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^h Environmental Agency Austria   (Austria)

ⁱ LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^j STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^k UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^l DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Colonisation; Exotic; Habitat suitability; Life history trait; Non indigenous; Policy; Propagule pressure; Risk analysis; Species distribution; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITERATURE REVIEW; MAPPING; POLICY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITIZATION; PROPAGULE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INTRODUCED SPECIES; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84867484022     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12003     Document Type: Review

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