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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">Hi, forest pest & invasive plant mavens !<br /><br /></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">My new blog summarizes the recent study by Seebens et al 2018 that addresses "emerging" invasive species ... and notes some gaps in the data that impede its use for predicting invaders' impacts.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">Check it out at <a href="http://www.cisp.us">www.cisp.us</a> or <a href="http://www.nivemnic.us">www.nivemnic.us</a></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">I welcome your input</span> on this - especially re: the study's findings on vertebrates & aquatics - since I claim no expertise on these groups. How can we best use this study and Seebens' 2017 study looking at rates of introduction across the board (link provided in the blog)?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">NEWS</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">1) APHIS has obtained $17.5 million in emergency funding from the Commodity Credit Corporation to enhance its efforts to eradicate the spotted lanternfly. APHIS' press release is at <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/02/07/perdue-announces-emergency-funding-spotted-lanternfly-pennsylvania">https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2018/02/07/perdue-announces-emergency-funding-spotted-lanternfly-pennsylvania</a><br></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">2) polyphagous shot hole borer has been detected in South Africa. Disastrous news. The good side of this is that the detection was the result of the Kwa-Zulu-Natal Botanical Ggarden searching its plants for pests because it has joined the International Plant Sentinel Network. I hope additional gardens and arboreta will become active in this "early detection" effort.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff;">Faith<br></span></div>
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