NCEAS Working Groups
Plants for planting
Project Description
This working group will evaluate data availability and quality for an assessment of the costs and benefits of implementing changes to USDA Plants for Planting regulations to prevent the unintentional importation of invasive pests carried on plants into the United States.. Three scenarios will be considered: 1) status quo, in which the U.S. mainly relies on a black list system and port of entry inspections; 2) status quo plus a new category of “grey listed” plants called NAPPRA (Not Authorized for Importation Pending Pest Risk Analysis); and 3) which adds a systems approach for clean stock production to the other two mitigations. To do this, the working group will apply lessons learned as well as an econometric model developed by an associated working group (http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/12289), to better understand how changes in phytosanitary regulation lead to changes in trade flows and pest introductions. In addition the group will undertake an analysis to determine what portion of introduced forest pests likely entered via the nursery stock pathway.

Principal Investigator(s)
Kerry O. Britton
Project Dates
Start: July 12, 2010
End: July 16, 2010
completed
Participants
- Clive Brasier
- Centre for Forestry and Climate Change
- Kerry O. Britton
- USDA Forest Service
- Eckehard G. Brockerhoff
- New Zealand Forest Research Institute
- Lynn J. Garrett
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- Andrew M. Liebhold
- USDA Forest Service
- Frank Lowenstein
- The Nature Conservancy
- Carissa Marassas
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), PPQ
- Amelia Nuding
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Jennifer Parke
- Oregon State University
- Scott E. Pfister
- USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), PPQ
- Michael Springborn
- University of California, Davis
- Karen Suslow
- Unknown
- John Peter Thompson
- Unknown
- James A. Turner
- Scion
Products
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Presentations / 2011
Plants for planting: How many pests, and at what price?
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Presentations / 2011
Trends in live plant imports
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Presentations / 2011
Trends in live plant imports
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Journal Article / 2012
Live plant imports: The major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US
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Data Set / 2012
Live plant imports: The major pathway for forest insect and pathogen invasions of the US