The Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center (NW CASC) is hosting an upcoming webinar on Tuesday, August 27 at 12:00 p.m. PT, during which researchers from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the University of Washington will share findings from their collaborative, NW CASC-supported project, Integrating Economics and Ecology to Inform Climate-Ready Invasive Species Management in Pacific Northwest Rivers.
In this webinar, members of the research team will discuss a new modeling framework for projecting habitat suitability for invasive plants under future climate scenarios, which they applied to invasive water-primrose (Ludwigia spp.) and knotweed (Reynoutria spp.) species in the Northwest. They’ll also share a new bioeconomic model of invasive species management that explores changes in management costs as potential habitat for invasive plants expands under climate change.