Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species
By Barbara Martinez, J. Reaser, A. Dehgan, Brad Zamft, D. Baisch, Colin McCormick, A. Giordano, R. Aicher, S. Selbe. Biological Invasions, 2019
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The 2016–2018National Invasive Species Council (NISC) Management Plan and Executive Order 13751 call for US federal agencies to foster technology development and application to address invasive species and their impacts. This paper complements and draws on an Innovation Summit, review of advanced biotechnologies applicable to invasive species management, and a survey of federal agencies that respond to these high-level directives. We provide an assessment of federal government capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species (EDRR) through advances in technology application; examples of emerging technologies for the detection, identification, reporting, and response to invasive species; and guidance for fostering further advancements in applicable technologies. Throughout the paper, we provide examples of how federal agencies are applying technologies to improve programmatic effectiveness and cost-efficiencies. We also highlight the outstanding technology-related needs identified by federal agencies to overcome barriers to enacting EDRR. Examples include improvements in research facility infrastructure, data mobilization across a wide range of invasive species parameters (from genetic to landscape scales), promotion of and support for filling key gaps in technological capacity (e.g., portable, field-ready devices with automated capacities), and greater investments in technology prizes and challenge competitions.
Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology
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- The early detection of and rapid response (EDRR) to invasive species: a conceptual framework and federal capacities assessment (2019, background): “…of invasive species (Kamenova et al. 2017), a summary of advanced genetic technologies for invasive species detection and management (Invasive Species Advisory Committee 2017), and an extensive overview of emerging technologies for addressing invasive species (Martinez et al. 2019, this issue).”