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Using public surveys to reliably and rapidly estimate the distributions of multiple invasive species on the Andaman archipelago
Author(s) -
Mohanty Nitya Prakash,
Sachin Anand,
Selvaraj Gayathri,
Vasudevan Karthikeyan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
biotropica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.813
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1744-7429
pISSN - 0006-3606
DOI - 10.1111/btp.12534
Subject(s) - archipelago , occupancy , geography , invasive species , distribution (mathematics) , ecology , physical geography , biology , archaeology , mathematics , mathematical analysis
To effectively manage multiple biological invasions, information on their distributions must be generated rapidly and over large spatial scales. Using public surveys in a false‐positive occupancy framework, we reliably estimate the distributions of three synanthropic invasive species on the Andaman Islands.