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Searching to eradicate:What to do after jumps to unknown locations?
Daniel Springa, Oscar Cachob, Luke Crofta, Tom Kompasc, Nhu Che
a Monash University, b University of New Englandc Crawford School of Economics & AC-BEE, ANU
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Some examples of successful and not-yet-successful eradications
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Kochia scopariaArea: largeeradicated ~15 yrs
Black-striped musselArea: smalleradicated <15 yrs
Successes
Mainly treatment, little search
Mainly search (passive & active)
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• Over 100,000 ha searched• Spatial extent & no of colonies increasing• >$230 million spent
Not yet successful: Red Imported Fire Ants in Queensland
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Kochia Skeleton weed
Kochia and skeleton weed: Similar areas, different outcomes
• Eradicated within 15 yrs• Good passive surveillance• Escaped jumps probably rare
• Not eradicated after 35 yrs• Poor passive surveillance• Escaped jumps prob. common
FailureSuccess
•Larger area infested
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Kochia scoparia Skeleton weed
Kochia and skeleton weed: Similar areas, different outcomes
Eradicated within 15 yr Not eradicated within 35 yr
Both invasions large, both had jumps:What biological & surveillance factors could explain
different outcomes?
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Discovery of new invasion: Three questions
1. Can it be eradicated?
2. Should it be eradicated?
3. If so, how?
KochiaBlack-striped mussel RIFA
? ? ?
Interdependent
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Sometimes answers obvious, sometimes not
KochiaBlack-striped mussel
• Eradicable? Yes. • Eradicate? Yes:
- B > C• Method?“brute-force treatment”
RIFA
• Eradicable? Maybe• Eradicate? Maybe
- Near threshold?• Method?
- Passive, active S
• Eradicable? Maybe. • Eradicate? Maybe:
- B & C both highMethod?
- Passive, active S
obvious not
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KochiaBlack-striped mussel
• No jumps• Costs known
- “Nuke” marina• Eradicate?
- Yes: B > C
RIFA
• Some jumps but abundance low- Needles in haystack
• Eradicate? - Depends on search costs &
effectiveness
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Importance of jumps
No jumps:• Spatial extent easy to estimate
(eg Leung Cacho Spring 2010)
• Can accurately estimate costs if treatment works (eg mussels)
Jumps:• Spatial extent, density?• Costs?•Bigger role for bioecon
First pests
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RIFA search & treatment 2001-2009
treatment (T)search (S)both
Heavy treatment when spatial extent believed known & “small”, then S/T grew
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What we usually don’t know
• Current locations of all individuals
• Reproduction and spread dynamics
Undetected individuals- didn’t search there
or missed them
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Limits to prediction
• Best predictive model won’t predict all individuals
• Eg est. 600 undetected RIFA nests
• If missed individuals cause irretrievable spread, prediction alone not enough to eradicate
• Need surveillance methods that don’t depend too much on predictive accuracy
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How to find pests in poorly predictable locations over large area?
• Search bigger area (eg remote sensing)• Optimal placement of search less important
If search sensitivity < 1:Use two sensors, one to search big area,
one to “mop up” afterwards
• Mopping up is often pretty easy - so placement not so important
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Importance of search placement: RIFA results
• Ran RIFA spread model with “probability search”
• Some gains compared to proximity search
– Increased detections but not eradication probability– Could not find “outlier nests” with probability search
• Then increased remote sensing sensitivity– Big increase in eradication probability
even when less active search
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Predictive Models - A Weather Analogy• Identify current rain locations
• Predict future rain locations based on past locations & past movement
• RIFA: predict new locations based on recent detections
• But only some locations searched & not all colonies detectable
– prediction is hard!
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Importance of search placement: More results
• Eradication probability with “probability search” and no remote sensing
– low unless search really large area
– Is that probability search or exhaustive search?
– Search placement less important than searching a large area
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Summary of main findings
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1. How to find “needles in haystack”?– Search strategies
2. What matters most for eradication feasibility?– Search sensitivity, biology
3. Two roles for bioeconomists:
– Determine decision thresholds (eg eradicate/control)
– Improving passive surveillance & reducing human-assisted movement of pests
• Requires incentive compatible tools
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Do people need bounties to report fire ants?
• Depends on private costs of removal• Private cost of government removal
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Effective search strategy
• Use cheap, low-sensitivity search of large area then expensive high-sensitivity sensor
– Eg: remote sensing then people search near remote detections
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Why it works well
• Clustering & search cost-sensitivity relationship:
– Most pests form clusters
– Easier to find ≥1 individual if cluster larger• Find most clusters with cheap, low-sensitivity search
– Use expensive sensor to “mop up”• ie finds individuals missed by cheap sensor
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RIFA clusterHigh probability of detecting ≥1 nest, but also high probability of missing some nests. Active search can find
them because more sensitive.
Assumes that nest detection probabilities are independent and nests not less detectable in larger clusters (eg not smaller)
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Hypothetical example
XFind red nest b/c large or one of many
Finds green nests because more sensitive
Remote sensing
May have found no nests without remote sensing b/c don’t know where to look
Don’t need people search here so save $$
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Improving remote sensing more important than improving ground search
X
Improved ground search finds few extra nests in known clusters
New detections (important)
More nests detected per cluster (not very important)
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What matters for search effectiveness
• Sensitivity• Delimitation
• Probability of “escaped jumps”: - jumps that occur before you find parents
Sensitivity = ? Sensitivity = 0.95
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Community involvement important
1. Reducing jump probability – Truncate maximum dispersal distance or
change shape of dispersal curve
– caused big increase in eradication probability
2. Increasing citizen detection probability – With information campaign, bounties
– caused big increase in eradication probability
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What happens to missed individuals?
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• Helicopters & people miss small isolated infestations
• Must wait until they become bigger
• Any escaped jumps by then?Need decision threshold analysis
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Catching up with invasion
• As long as jumps are rare, can “catch up” with invasion even if search large areas with low sensitivity
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Eradicating with imperfect surveillance
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• Some RIFA clusters decline then get larger due to incomplete removal and delay before rediscovery
• Most clusters eventually removed– “Real world” example: Kochia
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Declining abundance and spatial extent
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Model to estimate whether “catch up” to invasion with imperfect surveillance
1. Distribution of colony ages within each cluster2. Spread kernel3. Reproduction rate = fn(age of colony)4. Detectability of colony5. passive detection probability6. active detection probability• What combination of escape rate and jump rate
prevents catch up?• What radius of active search keeps invasion in decline?
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