Harmonia + and Pandora +: risk screening tools for potentially invasive plants, animals and their pathogens

Biological Invasions

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1869-1883

  D’hondt, Bram ^a,b   Vanderhoeven, Sonia ^a,c   Roelandt, Sophie ^d   Mayer, François ^e   Versteirt, Veerle ^f   Adriaens, Tim ^b   Ducheyne, Els ^f   San Martin, Gilles ^g   Grégoire, Jean Claude ^e   Stiers, Iris ^h   Quoilin, Sophie ⁱ   Cigar, Julien ^a   Heughebaert, André ^a   Branquart, Etienne ^c  

^a Belgian Biodiversity Platform   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

^c Service Public de Wallonie   (Belgium)

^d VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f AVIA GIS   (Belgium)

^g WALLOON AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^h VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

ⁱ SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Horizon scanning; ISEIA; Prioritisation; Risk assessment; Risk screening; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939953535     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: 15731464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-015-0843-1     Document Type: Article

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