While many "alien" plant and animal species are purposefully
introduced into new areas as ornamentals, livestock, crops, and
even pets, these species can escape into other areas and threaten
agricultural and native ecosystems causing economic and
environmental harm, or harm to human health. Increasingly,
scientists are using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to track
and manage the invaders, mitigate the potential rate of spread and
level of impact, and protect the native economy and ecosystem.
Beginning with an introduction to the use of GIS technology to
capture, store, analyze, manage, and present data, GIS Applications
in Agriculture, Volume Three: Invasive Species examines five
relevant categories of geographic information including dispersal
and transport, prediction and forecasting, mapping of current
infestations, maps for management and control tactics, and impact
assessment and method of control. It address GIS for studying the
population ecology of a new species, niche requirements for species
success, and the monitoring and control of several different
species including Australian examples of intentionally introduced
invasive species, insects and other animals that may also vector a
disease, and invasive weed management from prediction to
management. Chapters cover maps and imageries available on various
Web sites and provide step-by-step tutorials or case studies that
allow manipulation of datasets featured on the
accompanyingdownloadable resources to make maps, perform
statistical analyses, and predict future problems. It offers
hands-on experience with a variety of software programs that create
interactive queries (user-created searches), analyze spatial
information, edit data and maps, and present the results of these
operations in several different formats. Some of the programs are
freeware, others are not, but each can be used to integrate, edit,
share, and display geographic information. Color figures are
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