Université de Fribourg

When are eradication campaigns successful? A test of common assumptions

Pluess, Therese ; Cannon, Ray ; Jarošík, Vojtěch ; Pergl, Jan ; Pyšek, Petr ; Bacher, Sven

In: Biological Invasions, 2012, vol. 14, no. 7, p. 1365-1378

Eradication aims at eliminating populations of alien organisms from an area. Since not all eradications are successful, several factors have been proposed in the literature (mainly by referring to case studies) to be crucial for eradication success, such as infestation size or reaction time. To our knowledge, however, no study has statistically evaluated which factors affect eradication...