TY - JOUR
T1 - Development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for risk screening non-native terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions
AU - Vilizzi, Lorenzo
AU - Piria, Marina
AU - Pietraszewski, Dariusz
AU - Kopecký, Oldřich
AU - Špelić, Ivan
AU - Radočaj, Tena
AU - Šprem, Nikica
AU - Ta, Kieu Anh T.
AU - Tarkan, Ali Serhan
AU - Weiperth, András
AU - Yoğurtçuoğlu, Baran
AU - Candan, Onur
AU - Herczeg, Gábor
AU - Killi, Nurçin
AU - Lemić, Darija
AU - Szajbert, Bettina
AU - Almeida, David
AU - Al-Wazzan, Zainab
AU - Atique, Usman
AU - Bakiu, Rigers
AU - Chaichana, Ratcha
AU - Dashinov, Dimitriy
AU - Ferincz, Árpad
AU - Flieller, Guillaume
AU - Gilles, Allan S.
AU - Goulletquer, Philippe
AU - Interesova, Elena
AU - Iqbal, Sonia
AU - Koyama, Akihiko
AU - Kristan, Petra
AU - Li, Shan
AU - Lukas, Juliane
AU - Moghaddas, Seyed Daryoush
AU - Monteiro, João G.
AU - Mumladze, Levan
AU - Olsson, Karin H.
AU - Paganelli, Daniele
AU - Perdikaris, Costas
AU - Pickholtz, Renanel
AU - Preda, Cristina
AU - Ristovska, Milica
AU - Švolíková, Kristína Slovák
AU - Števove, Barbora
AU - Uzunova, Eliza
AU - Vardakas, Leonidas
AU - Verreycken, Hugo
AU - Wei, Hui
AU - Zięba, Grzegorz
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Lorenzo Vilizzi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Electronic decision-support tools are becoming an essential component of government strategies to tackle non-native species invasions. This study describes the development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for screening terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions: the Terrestrial Animal Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TAS-ISK). As an adaptation of the widely employed Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), the TAS-ISK question template inherits from the original Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) and related WRA-type toolkits and complies with the ‘minimum requirements’ for use with the recent European Regulation on invasive alien species of concern. The TAS-ISK consists of 49 basic questions on the species’ biogeographical/historical traits and its biological/ecological interactions, and of 6 additional questions to predict how climate change is likely to influence the risks of introduction, establishment, dispersal and impact of the screened species. Following a description of the main features of this decision-support tool as a turnkey software application and of its graphical user interface with support for 32 languages, sample screenings are provided in different risk assessment areas for one representative species of each of the main taxonomic groups of terrestrial animals supported by the toolkit: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, annelids, insects, molluscs, nematodes, and platyhelminths. The highest-scoring species were the red earthworm Lumbricus rubellus for the Aegean region of Turkey and the New Zealand flatworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus for Croatia.
AB - Electronic decision-support tools are becoming an essential component of government strategies to tackle non-native species invasions. This study describes the development and application of a multilingual electronic decision-support tool for screening terrestrial animals under current and future climate conditions: the Terrestrial Animal Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (TAS-ISK). As an adaptation of the widely employed Aquatic Species Invasiveness Screening Kit (AS-ISK), the TAS-ISK question template inherits from the original Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) and related WRA-type toolkits and complies with the ‘minimum requirements’ for use with the recent European Regulation on invasive alien species of concern. The TAS-ISK consists of 49 basic questions on the species’ biogeographical/historical traits and its biological/ecological interactions, and of 6 additional questions to predict how climate change is likely to influence the risks of introduction, establishment, dispersal and impact of the screened species. Following a description of the main features of this decision-support tool as a turnkey software application and of its graphical user interface with support for 32 languages, sample screenings are provided in different risk assessment areas for one representative species of each of the main taxonomic groups of terrestrial animals supported by the toolkit: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, annelids, insects, molluscs, nematodes, and platyhelminths. The highest-scoring species were the red earthworm Lumbricus rubellus for the Aegean region of Turkey and the New Zealand flatworm Arthurdendyus triangulatus for Croatia.
KW - As-isk
KW - Biological invasions
KW - Decision-makers
KW - Tas-isk
KW - Turnkey application
KW - Wra
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U2 - 10.3897/neobiota.76.84268
DO - 10.3897/neobiota.76.84268
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140033464
SN - 1619-0033
VL - 76
SP - 211
EP - 236
JO - NeoBiota
JF - NeoBiota
ER -
