Alongside climate change and habitat loss, aquatic nonindigenous species (ANS)
introductions comprise a large and increasing contribution of the anthropogenic threat to …

Aquatic non-indigenous species (ANS) management employs risk assessment as a tool to
prioritize prevention and control efforts, but timely and comprehensive risk estimates are …

Expert judgement is often used to mitigate the knowledge gaps that limit understanding of
aquatic non-indigenous species (ANS) impacts (consequences) to environmental …

Sound planning is vital to ensure effective management of biodiversity, particularly where
there is a high risk that management goals may not be achieved. This is the case at Toolibin …

Risk assessment tools for listing invasive alien species need to incorporate all available
evidence and expertise. Beyond the wealth of protocols developed to date, we argue that …

When evaluating the risks of future invasions, we often have sparse information on the
likelihood that a species will arrive, establish and spread in a new environment, and on the …

Understanding the magnitude of biosecurity risks in aquatic environments is increasingly
complex and urgent because increasing volumes of international shipping, rising demand …

The spread of nonindigenous (nonnative) species introduced into the United States is a
significant and growing national problem and results in lost agricultural productivity …

Risk assessment is a tool that has many applications in marine biosecurity. Its application to
aquaculture has only recently moved from the protective standpoint of animal health (ie the …

Inspired by precautionary and participatory approaches to risk governance of novel
technologies, this thesis concerns how to acknowledge and handle scientific uncertainties in …