Biosecurity surveillance : quantitative approaches /

• Other Authors: Jarrad, Frith, (Editor), Low Choy, Samantha, (Editor), Mengersen, Kerrie L., (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Series: CABI invasive species series ; 6.
• Subjects: Biological invasions > Prevention.; Plant invasions > Prevention.; Environmental monitoring.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Automation and Control.; Biological Resources (Animal); Biological Resources (Plant); Mathematics and Statistics.; Plant Ecology.; Animal Ecology.; Techniques and Methodology.; Biodiversity.; Case studies.; Image analysis.; Introduced species.; Introduction.; Invasions.; Invasive species.; Mathematical models.; Pests.; Quantitative analysis.; Quantitative techniques.; Remote sensing.; Sensors.; Statistical analysis.; Surveillance.; Weeds.
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Biosecurity surveillance plays a vital role in protection against the introduction and spread of unwanted plants and animals. It involves not just collecting relevant information, but also analysing this information. This book focuses on methods for quantitative analysis of biosecurity surveillance...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Biosecurity Surveillance : Quantitative Approaches / Frith Jarrad
• Biosecurity Surveillance in Agriculture and Environment : a Review / Megan Quinlan, Mark Stanaway and Kerrie Mengersen
• Getting the Story Straight : Laying the Foundations for Statistical Evaluation of the Performance of Surveillance / Samantha Low-Choy
• Hierarchical Models for Evaluating Surveillance Strategies : Diversity Within a Common Modular Structure / Samantha Low-Choy
• The Relationship Between Biosecurity Surveillance and Risk Analysis / Alan MacLeod
• Designing Surveillance for Emergency Response / Zoé van Havre and Peter Whittle
• The Role of Surveillance in Evaluating and Comparing International Quarantine Systems / Murthy Mittinty, Peter Whittle, Mark Burgman and Kerrie Mengersen
• Estimating Detection Rates and Probabilities / Cindy E. Hauser, Georgia E. Garrard and Joslin L. Moore
• Ad hoc Solutions to Estimating Pathway Non-compliance Rates Using Imperfect and Incomplete Information / Andrew P. Robinson, Matthew Chisholm, Robert Mudford and Robert Maillardet
• Surveillance for Soilborne Microbial Biocontrol Agents and Plant Pathogens / Peter Whittle, Ingvar Sundh and Stephen Neate
• Design of a Surveillance System for Non-indigenous Species on Barrow Island : Plants Case Study / Justine Murray, Peter Whittle, Frith Jarrad, Susan Barrett, Richard Stoklosa and Kerrie Mengersen
• Towards Reliable Mapping of Biosecurity Risk : Incorporating Uncertainty and Decision Makers' Risk Aversion / Denys Yemshanov, Frank H. Koch, Mark Ducey and Robert A. Haack
• Detection Survey Design for Decision Making During Biosecurity Incursions / John M. Kean, Graham M. Burnip and Amin Pathan
• Inference and Prediction with Individual-based Stochastic Models of Epidemics / Gavin Gibson and Christopher A. Gilligan
• Evidence of Absence for Invasive Species : Roles for Hierarchical Bayesian Approaches in Regulation / Mark Stanaway
• Using Bayesian Networks to Model Surveillance in Complex Plant and Animal Health Systems / Sandra Johnson, Kerrie Mengersen, Michael Ormsby and Peter Whittle
• Statistical Emulators of Simulation Models to Inform Surveillance and Response to New Biological Invasions / Michael Renton and David Savage
• Animal, Vegetable, or ... ? A Case Study in Using Animal-health Monitoring Design Tools to Solve a Plant-health Surveillance Problem / Susan Hester, Evan Sergeant, Andrew P. Robinson and Graham Schultz
• Agent-based Bayesian Spread Model Applied to Red Imported Fire Ants in Brisbane / Jonathan M. Keith and Daniel Spring
• Appendix : Common Statistical Distributions Used in Statistical Modelling and Analysis for Biosecurity Surveillance / Jessie Roberts, Samantha Low-Choy, Frith Jarrad and Kerrie Mengersen.