FWC IPMS has funded FNAI to assist CISMAs:

1. FWC IPMS has funded FNAI to assist CISMAs: Objective 2: Assisting FWC-IPM and its partners in cooperative efforts to develop a landscape level approach to invasive species management in Florida • An FNAI staff member will be assigned to each Florida CISMA to participate on steering committees and will notify the chairperson that FNAI is available to provide technical assistance. This participation shall include regular attendance of meetings via phone and occasional travel. Other assistance may include invasive plant identification workshops, rare plant locations threatened by invasive plant occurrences, data collection and entry into iMapIvasives database workshops, and participation in field surveys for invasive plants. • FNAI shall develop a biannual report for each of the CISMAs describing potential EDRR species (based on number of occurrences and proximity to the CISMAs). The report shall include general biological information suitable for evaluating the threat to a given region. For CISMAs lacking a protocol for listing EDRR species, FNAI shall provide guidance for developing a protocol based on biological characteristics of the invasive plant species. • FNAI shall develop a PowerPoint presentation corresponding to each of the reports described in 2.2 depicting information suitable for evaluating each potential EDRR species, and suggested control methods. • An FNAI staff member will participate in the monthly CISMA calls coordinated by FISP. • Provide GIS support for FWC-IPMS staff in using FNAI data and conducting mapping and analysis of invasive plants data as needed. Objective 3: Maximizing the value of FWC-IPM’s initial investment in the FLInv project through the continued development of the FLInv/iMapInvasives database • FNAI will continue to maintain a statewide database of invasive plant occurrences on public conservations lands targeting EDRR species coordinated through the CISMAs.

2. Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) Species: A species that is not yet established in an area, but which has been determined to be a threat to native species in similar areas, and which should be eradicated as soon as possible to avoid potential ecological disturbance.

3. SCALE Species which are EDRR species in your park may not be EDRR species for the CISMA

4. iMapInvasives and EDDMapS data 150miles of FL 600 species About 213,000 records from FL, GA, AL, and LA

5. North Central Each species individually evaluated by FNAI staff for each IFAS Assessment zone YES/NO/MAYBE South

6. Info sources • IFAS assessment results http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/assessment/), • Voucher reports from herbaria • UDSA Hardiness Zone data • Distribution of the occurrences in the combined databases • Other information about invasiveness

7. FNAI Criteria • We required that EDRR species pose a potential threat to native species and/or communities due to a demonstrated high rate of naturalization and spread in similar areas or in the area of introduction in Florida. Highly invasive species in other states or countries got special attention. • We required that EDRR species have a limited range within a zone and thus be likely eradicable • We excluded species that were either well established in a CISMA or which we judged as unlikely to naturalize readily. • We did not include species just because they are hard to identify or unfamiliar • We did not exclude species on the potential lists because they are widely familiar (i.e., Brazilian pepper (Schinusterebinthifolius) in the panhandle).

8. Initial lists for each CISMA • All spp within 150miles • Highest rank for all intersecting IFAS zones • PowerPoint and pdf info sheets for each “YES”

9. Moving forward • FWC treatment funding - but only for public properties • Land Snail model • $7.8million = $61 per snail • 50 full time staff • Warrants for private properties… • When can we make EDRR work? Andrew Derksen, Florida Cooperative Agriculture Pest Survey Program