Prioritising species

Select types of agricultural production at risk from and state your beliefs about possible proportional damage to each of the industries, in the areas of overlap with the pest :

Broadacre cereal and non-cereal crops

Reduction in cereal and non-cereal crops, %

Hay and silage

Reduction in hay and silage, %

Flower and nurseries

Reduction in flower and nurseries, %

Fruit and nuts

Reduction in fruit and nuts, %

Vegetables for human consumption

Reduction in vegetables production, %

Livestock products

Reduction in livestock products, %

On a national scale, the annual damage from this pest is in millions of Australian dollars.

Localised social impacts, consider the following:

Community Stability (includes employment/displacement effects)

Social impacts

To access environmental damage consider impacts on:

Biodiversity

Protected native species

Habitats

Environmental damage

Amenity, consider the following:

Spiritual Values

Aesthetics (landscapes, views, waterways)

Recreational, leisure, cultural activities

Personal loss of freedom, impacts on mobility, choices, usually from management actions

Fear and worry, perceptions of risk, not necessarily supported by evidence

Negative impacts on amenity, higher score values represent worse damage

Eradication measures' utility is a combination of effectiveness of measures and a chance of successful implementation. Uncertainty in both is considered.

Probability distributions are combined using the 'Matrix Method', described in Holt et al. 2013 .

Rate the potential for successful eradication assuming full implementation of measures bearing in mind biological and ecological behaviour of the pest.

Rate the chances of the full implementation of eradication measures bearing in mind technical, economic, labour constraints, etc.

Effectiveness of eradication measures

Express your uncertainty in such rating

Implementation Feasibility

Express your uncertainty about this rating

Eradication measures' utility: