Danny Spring

A generalised and scalable framework for modelling incursions, surveillance and control of plant and environmental pests

Richard Bradhurst, Danny Spring, Mark Stanaway, James Milner, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2021  |  Environmental Modelling & Software

Invasive plant and environmental pests can seriously impact environment, economy, health and amenity. It is challenging to form re..

Budgeting and portfolio allocation for biosecurity measures

Tom Kompas, Long Chu, Van Ha Pham, Daniel Spring

Journal article  |  2019  |  AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

This paper presents a practical model for optimally allocating a budget across different biosecurity threats and measures (e.g. pr..

Delimiting a species' geographic range using posterior sampling and computational geometry

Jonathan M Keith, Daniel Spring, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scientific Reports

Accurate delimitation of the geographic range of a species is important for control of biological invasions, conservation of threa..

Modelling trends including effects of natural disturbance in an abalone dive fishery in Australia

Harry Gorfine, Jim Thomson, Daniel Spring, Michael Cleland

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING

Abstract: Fisheries management strategies usually do not consider secondary consequences of environmental shocks. A recent viral d..

Institutional impediments to conservation of freshwater dependent ecosystems

Daniel A Spring, Luke Croft, Nick R Bond, Shaun C Cunningham, Ralph Mac Nally, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2018  |  SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

When freshwater resources become scarce there is a trade-off between human resource demands and environmental sustainability. The ..

Look before you treat: increasing the cost effectiveness of eradication programs with aerial surveillance

Daniel Spring, Luke Croft, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2017  |  BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Most successful invasive species eradication programs were applied to invasions confined to a small area. Invasions occupying larg..

Value of Information Analysis as a Decision Support Tool for Biosecurity

Michael C Runge, Tracy M Rout, Daniel A Spring, Terry Walshe

Book Chapter  |  2017

Managing Risk and Increasing the Robustness of Invasive Species Eradication Programs

Daniel Spring, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2015  |  ASIA & THE PACIFIC POLICY STUDIES

Invasive species eradication programs can fail by applying management strategies that are not robust to potentially large but non-..

Estimating eradication probabilities and trade-offs for decision analysis in invasive species eradication programs

Daniel Spring, Oscar J Cacho

Journal article  |  2015  |  BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Eradication of invasive species can have substantial benefits but programs often fail and have high costs. Costs can be reduced by..

Agent-based Bayesian approach to monitoring the progress of invasive species eradication programs.

Jonathan M Keith, Daniel Spring

Journal article  |  2013  |  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

Eradication of an invasive species can provide significant environmental, economic, and social benefits, but eradication programs ..