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SUBMITTER: Wittmann ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3963436 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wittmann Marion E ME Cooke Roger M RM Rothlisberger John D JD Lodge David M DM
Environmental science & technology 20140127 4
Recently, authors have theorized that invasive species prevention is more cost-effective than control in protecting ecosystem services. However, quantification of the effectiveness of prevention is rare because experiments at field scales are expensive or infeasible. We therefore used structured expert judgment to quantify the efficacy of 17 proposed strategies to prevent Asian carp invasion of the Laurentian Great Lakes via the hydrologic connection between the Mississippi and Great Lakes water ...[more]