Modeling SOD risk in the United States

Kelly, M., Q. Guo, D. Liu and D. Shaari. 2007. Modeling the risk of a new invasive forest disease in the United States: an evaluation of five environmental niche models. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 31(6): 689‐710

Risk for SOD in the southeast based on model agreementUsing the locations of P. ramorum in CA we derived a risk map for SOD spread in the conterminous US using 5 environmental niche models: Expert-driven Rule-based, Logistic Regression, Classification and Regression Trees, Genetic Algorithms, and Support Vector Machines. Article here.

Keywords: Environmental niche modeling; Sudden oak death; Geographic information systems