FinnPRIO-Explorer: a new tool to explore pest prioritisations made for Finland
The Finnish Food Authority has published a web application for exploring the assessments made with the FinnPRIO model (i.e., a model for ranking non-native plant pests based on the risk that they pose to plant health). The app is called FinnPRIO-Explorer and its main purpose is to facilitate the use of FinnPRIO assessments for risk management decisions related to, e.g., allocation of surveillance resources.
In the app, the pests to be viewed can be selected based on, e.g., their quarantine status and the plant production sector threatened. The summary statistics of the scores that indicate the likelihood of entry, establishment and spread, magnitude of impacts, controllability, and manageability can be explored via graphs and tables. In addition, ranking of the pests, which accounts for the uncertainty of the assessments, is presented. The current version of the app contains all the 285 FinnPRIO assessments made for Finland.
The app is available at https://finnprio-explorer.rahtiapp.fi/ and its source code is published in Zenodo (Marinova-Todorova et al., 2022) with an open-source software licence. The FinnPRIO-model is described in detail in Heikkilä et al. (2016).
Sources
Heikkila J, Tuomola J, Pouta E, Hannunen S (2016) FinnPRIO: a model for ranking invasive plant pests based on risk. Biological Invasions 18, 1827-1842. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-016-1123-4
Marinova-Todorova M, Tuomola J, Hannunen S (2022) FinnPRIO-Explorer - A tool for examining assessments made with the FinnPRIO model. Finnish Food Authority, Helsinki, Finland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7016771