Early Detection and Rapid Response

Early detection and rapid response (EDRR) to invasive species is the most cost-effective management strategy if prevention fails. Recognizing the importance of EDRR, the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) is playing a central coordinating role in advancing the National EDRR Framework through sustained interagency leadership, planning, and implementation support. The National EDRR Framework is strengthening detection and response to invasive species across jurisdictional boundaries.  

NISC helped drive the development and refinement of Framework guidance, surveillance workflows, and communication strategies. NISC is facilitating partner engagement, integrating feedback across agencies, and strengthening connections between Executive Branch departments.  

NISC White Papers on EDRR:

EDRR Special Issue - Journal of Biological Invasions (Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2020) 

Single Document (LARGE FILE:  4.454MB)

Individual Articles:

  • Conceptual Framework  (Title: The early detection of and rapid response to invasive species [EDRR]: a conceptual framework and federal capacities assessment)
  • Information Management  (Title:  Envisioning a national invasive species information framework)
  • Information Management Guidance  (Title:  Enabling decisions that make a difference: guidance for improving access to and analysis of invasive species information)
  • Watch Lists  (Title:  Invasive species watch lists: guidance for development, communication, and application)
  • Risk Screening  (Title:  Instituting a national early detection and rapid response program: needs for building federal risk screening capacity)
  • Target Analysis  (Title:  Right place. Right time. Right tool: guidance for using target analysis to increase the likelihood of invasive species detection)
  • Technology Innovation  (Title:  Technology innovation: advancing capacities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species)
  • Taxonomic Identification  (Title:  Capacity of United States federal government and its partners to rapidly and accurately report the identity [taxonomy] of non-native organisms intercepted in early detection programs)
  • Legal Authorities  (Title:  Federal legal authorities for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species)
  • Legal Authorities Guidance  (Title:  Federal legal authorities: guidance for application to the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species)
  • Incident Command System Guidance  (Title:  The incident command system: a framework for rapid response to biological invasion)
  • Blueprint for a National Program  (Title:  Putting a federal capacities assessment to work: blueprint for a national program for the early detection of and rapid response to invasive species [EDRR]) 

Additional work on EDRR:

 

Information on Early Detection and Rapid Response is also available from the National Invasive Species Information Center

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