Widening the toolkit: developing biosecurity solutions from chemical ecology (Poster)

Increasing volumes of tourists and cargo are generating unprecedented levels of alien invasive species establishment across the world, which can threaten productive and natural ecosystems. Invasive species are very diffi cult to eradicate. Government-sanctioned pest eradication programmes are increasingly being commenced worldwide in response, at a rate at least doubling each decade, with close to 100 programmes so far in Australia and New Zealand combined. Some programmes are more likely to succeed than others, based on the availability of suitable tools for delimitation and response. Our CRC project has looked at combinations of tools for horticultural pests, and here we will also consider the importance of Allee effects in pest population dynamics, and how certain combinations of tactics can best be integrated to increase the likelihood of success.