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Symposium
13: Prediction and prioritization of future invasive species
Endorsed
by the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP)
Wednesday,
August 10, 1:30 PM - 5 PM, Meeting Room 517a, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizers:
Richard Mack (rmack@mail.wsu.edu),
Mark Lonsdale
Description: Demand is
increasing for risk-based decision tools for invasive species. Non-native
species will continue to be introduced, and we must rapidly determine which
could become harmful and then set priorities for their eradication or control.
Similar priorities must be established among non-native species already present,
especially determining whether it is safe to suspend an eradication program in
favor of control. Ecologists hold a range of views on our current and potential
ability to predict risk from species yet to be introduced and those species
already in a new range. Some are optimistic, others less so. Speakers in this
symposium collectively address whether the phenomenology of invasions could be
developed into principles for predicting and prioritizing invasive species.
Their approaches vary strikingly from reliance on correlation to field
experimentation to modeling; the objects of their concerns include invasive
plants, insects, and vertebrates.
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