Peer Review Plan for the Rapid Screening of Species Risk of Establishment and Impact in the United States

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The Fish and Wildlife Service has developed a rapid risk screening process to determine a high, low, or uncertain level of risk for imported nonnative species. The process uses international databases, scientific literature, and a peer-reviewed model to match climate (via 16 climate variables) of a species in its native and invasive ranges with similar climates in the United States. The results indicate approximate geographic ranges in the United States where the climate is and is not similar to where the species survives elsewhere. The species’ history of invasiveness is then factored into the risk-screening model.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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Completed

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Injurious Wildlife Listings - Keeping Risky Wildlife Species Out of the United States

Preventing the introduction of new harmful species is the only way to fully avoid impacts of injurious species on local, regional, and national economies and infrastructure, and on the natural resources of the United States.

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Aquatic Invasive Species

Aquatic invasive species cause tremendous harm to our environment, our economy, and our health. They can drive out and eat native plants and wildlife, spread diseases, and damage infrastructure. We work to protect our waterways and the communities that depend on them from the threat of invasive...

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Invasive species