Over the past century, the number of species that have been transported to areas outside their native range has increased steadily. New pests and pathogens place biological pressure on valuable resident species, but strict bans may conflict with trading and travel needs. An overview of how the conflict can be managed using pest risk mapping and modelling, this book uses worked examples to explain modelling and help development of tool kits for assessment.

Despite major international investment in biofuels, the invasive risks associated with these crops are still unknown. A cohesive state-of-the-art review of the invasive potential of bioenergy crops, this book covers the identified risks of invasion, distributions of key crops and policy and management issues. Including a section on developing predictive models, this book also assesses the potential societal impact of bioenergy crops and how to mitigate invasive risks.

Biosecurity Surveillance provides the foundation and concepts behind surveillance design, with examples of methods and tools created to deal with surveillance challenges.

It includes supporting case studies and current directions in research and it covers evidence-based approaches to surveillance, statistics, detectability, single and multi-species detection, risk assessment, diagnostics, data-basing, modeling of invasion and spread, optimization, and future climate challenges.

This book explores the most important aspects of the biology, ecology and management of -the world's worst weed.- Covering its mode of spread and its impacts upon agricultural production, the environment and human health, it also reviews management techniques such as biological control, cultural, physical, and chemical approaches. Suitable for researchers of plant ecology and related subjects, it also considers the possible uses of Parthenium weed, its distribution and the impacts of climate change.

There are many hypotheses describing the interactions involved in biological invasions, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence. This book fills that gap by assessing research hypotheses and applying it to a number of invasion hypotheses, using the hierarchy-of-hypotheses (HoH) approach.

This book examines direct effects to human health from invasive species such as bites, wounds and illness and indirect effects via changes induced in the ecosystems. It covers case studies from different taxa (animals and plants) and in developed and developing countries.