Mapping risk: Priorities to prevent the establishment of invasive Salt Cedar (Tamarix spp.)

NATALE, EVANGELINA S.; REINOSO, HERMINDA E.; ZALBA, SERGIO M.

African Journal of Geography and Regional Planning

ISJ- International Scholars Journals

Lugar: Leipzig; Año: 2022 vol. 8 p. 1 - 2

2736-1586

Invasive alien species are one of the most severe threats to the conservation of biodiversity and a significant cause of socioeconomic losses; they also affect human health and welfare. In addition to this, current climate change accelerates the advance of this threat, generating conditions either for theexpansion of established species or for the introduction of new species in the natural environmentsThe identification of areas where probabilities of establishment and invasion by an alien species are high can reduce logistic and economic costs. The objective of this work was to develop an invasion risk index that can be modeled within a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment, combining information on the current and potential distribution of the salt cedar, the analysis of dispersion routes and the potential impact on environmental and socioeconomic values.