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Prioritising plant-parasitic nematode species biosecurity risks using self organising maps

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The biosecurity risks from many plant-parasitic nematode (PPN) species are poorly known and remain a major challenge for identifying potentially invasive species. A self organising map (SOM) was used to prioritise biosecurity risks from PPN to the whole of continental Australia as well as each of the states and the Northern Territory separately. The SOM used the recorded worldwide distributions of 250 systematically selected species from 43 genera, and identified 18 different countries spanning Asia, Africa, North and Central America, Europe and the Pacific with very similar PPN assemblages to Australia as a whole. Many of the species in these countries are not recorded in Australia, and therefore pose a biosecurity risk. Analysed separately, the states and territories were identified as forming five separate clusters, each with a different region of the world, and with different characteristic PPN. Many of the PPN found in the regions clustered with an Australian state have not been recorded from anywhere in Australia, and others have very restricted distributions within Australia, thus posing different biosecurity risks. The SOM analysis ranked the risks of the different PPN based on likelihoods of establishment. The rankings confirmed the risks from frequently quarantined PPN, but more importantly identified species, which upon further investigation could be new threats. This method can be used to identify previously overlooked species for more detailed risk assessments.

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The authors thank Drs. Louise Morin and Alice Hughes (CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences) for reading and commenting on the manuscript. We also thank Chris Edmeades and Lucinda Charles (CABI) for answering queries relating to the CABI crop protection compendium and invasive species compendium databases. The authors acknowledge the support of the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program.

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    Sunil K. Singh, Dean R. Paini & Mike Hodda

  2. Graham Centre for Agricultural Innovation (an alliance between Charles Sturt University and the NSW Department of Primary Industries), Wagga Wagga, NSW, 2678, Australia

    Sunil K. Singh & Gavin J. Ash

  3. Cooperative Research Centre for Plant Biosecurity, Bruce, ACT, 2617, Australia

    Sunil K. Singh & Dean R. Paini

  4. Biosecurity Flagship, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

    Sunil K. Singh, Dean R. Paini & Mike Hodda

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Singh, S.K., Paini, D.R., Ash, G.J. et al. Prioritising plant-parasitic nematode species biosecurity risks using self organising maps. Biol Invasions 16, 1515–1530 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-013-0588-7

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  • Phytosanitary
  • Pest risk analysis
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  • New threats
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