Using Species Distribution Modeling to Enhance the Detection of an Invasive Soft Coral in Hawai‘i

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• Personal Author:
  Cabus, Shawn ; Tanaka, Kisei R. ; Otsu, Maya ; Gajdzik, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.) ; University of Hawaii at Manoa. Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) ; CIMAR (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) ; CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
• Description:
  Biological invasions are an increasingly major global threat to the functioning of ecosystems today (Levine, 2008; Roy et al., 2024). While most non-native species have neutral or benign impacts, smaller subsets can cause significant ecological and economic harm (Levine, 2008). They are responsible for 60% of documented extinctions in all ecosystems and incurring global economic costs exceeding US$ 423 billion in 2019 (Roy et al., 2024). These harmful species are termed “invasive” and often characterized as fast-growing generalist organisms capable of rapid establishment and spread (Levine, 2008; Walther et al., 2009).
• Keywords:
  Biogeography Corals Introduced Aquatic Organisms Mathematical Models Introduced Aquatic Organisms Mathematical Models
• Series:
  NOAA technical memorandum NMFS-PIFSC   183
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.25923/v62q-3k69
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Memorandum
• Place as Subject:
  Hawaii
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:aa7e2c79209edaada4dc1796a86abfb37de5e7ac2d2be0432fae7e20428f1f21cfc40c40f4e85b885ba736d78996d010de5e4774c78275b91042220fe46b7423
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