Keywords

surveillance; range expansion; alien invasive species; spatial modeling; approximate Bayesian computation; simulation.

Location

Session G1: Using Simulation Models to Improve Understanding of Environmental Systems

Start Date

16-6-2014 9:00 AM

End Date

16-6-2014 10:20 AM

Abstract

The spatiotemporal dynamics of an alien species invasion across a real landscape are typically complex. While surveillance is an essential part of a management response, planning surveillance in space and time present a difficult challenge due to this complexity. We show here a method for determining the highest probability sites for occupancy across a landscape at an arbitrary point in the future, based on occupancy data from a single slice in time. We apply to the method to the invasion of Giant Hogweed, a serious weed in the Czech republic and throughout Europe.

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Jun 16th, 9:00 AM Jun 16th, 10:20 AM

Defining the spatiotemporal surveillance space for alien species' invasions using approximate Bayesian computation

Session G1: Using Simulation Models to Improve Understanding of Environmental Systems

The spatiotemporal dynamics of an alien species invasion across a real landscape are typically complex. While surveillance is an essential part of a management response, planning surveillance in space and time present a difficult challenge due to this complexity. We show here a method for determining the highest probability sites for occupancy across a landscape at an arbitrary point in the future, based on occupancy data from a single slice in time. We apply to the method to the invasion of Giant Hogweed, a serious weed in the Czech republic and throughout Europe.