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Risk analysis and bioeconomics of invasive species. Oct 17, 2016 risk analysis of species invasions links biology and economics, is increasingly mandated by international and national policies, and enables improved management of invasive species. This dissertation studies the bioeconomics and management of an invasive species. Iucn guidelines for the prevention of biodiversity loss caused by alien invasive species prepared by the ssc invasive species specialist group approved by the 51st meeting of the iucn council, gland switzerland, february 2000 index 1. The control of invasive species has more to do with economic policy than with biology and ecology. Economics of invasive species policy and management rebecca s. Globally, invasive alien species ias are considered to be one of the major threats to. The methods biologists use to reach these conclusions typically involve scoring introductions of known outcome as invasive or not invasive, then looking for correlations between invasiveness and various attributes of the introduced species, such as life history traits or biogeography, using multivariate statistics e.
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