Use of a Bayesian Network Model as a Decision-Support Tool For Assessing Risk of Nonnative Aquatic Species as Invasive and Injurious Species

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This model is a risk analysis model for assessing potential invasiveness and injuriousness of aquatic species. The model uses Bayesian networking to assess the probability by which known or projected characteristics of individual species would contribute to their becoming potentially injurious.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Type of document

Completed

Program

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.

Program

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