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The ornamental plant trade has been identified as a key introduction pathway for plant pathogens. Establishing effective biosecurity measures to reduce the risk of plant pathogen outbreaks in the live plant trade is therefore important. Management of invasive pathogens has been identified as a weakest link public good, and thus is reliant on the actions of individual private agents. This paper therefore provides an analysis of the impact of the private agents’ biosecurity decisions on pathogen prevention and control within the plant trade. We model the impact that an infectious disease has on a plant nursery under a constant pressure of potentially infected input plant materials, like seeds and saplings, where the spread of the disease reduces the value of mature plants. We explore six scenarios to understand the influence of three key bioeconomic parameters; the disease's basic reproductive number, the loss in value of a mature plant from acquiring an infection and the cost-effectiveness of restriction. The results characterise the disease dynamics within the nursery and explore the trade-offs and synergies between the optimal level of efforts on restriction strategies (actions to prevent buying infected inputs), and on removal of infected plants in the nursery. For diseases that can be easily controlled, restriction and removal are substitutable strategies. In contrast, for highly infectious diseases, restriction and removal are often found to be complementary, provided that restriction is cost-effective and the optimal level of removal is non-zero
Author(s): Bate A, Jones G, Kleczkowski A, Macleod A, Naylor R, Timmis J, Touza J, White PCL
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Ecological Modelling
Year: 2016
Volume: 334
Pages: 27-43
Print publication date: 24/07/2016
Online publication date: 16/05/2016
Acceptance date: 17/04/2016
Date deposited: 02/07/2018
ISSN (print): 0304-3800
ISSN (electronic): 1872-7026
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.04.013
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.04.013
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