Watch here Christelle Robinet’s talk at the FISC symposium to discover how modelling helps predict and manage invasions of forest pests.
In this recorded lecture, Dr Christelle Robinet from INRAE outlines how quantitative models can be used to assess invasion risk and support biosecurity decisions. She explains how different models address each phase of a typical invasion, transport, establishment and spread, and that combining models helps quantify risk and guide management. Robinet emphasises the importance of generic models and collaboration among scientists and policy-makers to address emerging and non-native forest pests.
About the speaker:
Christelle Robinet is a research scientist at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) in Orléans, France. Her work focuses on modelling the potential entry and spread of invasive species. She has reviewed modelling approaches that tackle each phase of pest invasion—entry pathways, potential establishment and dispersal—while addressing uncertainty and risk mitigation and she has co-developed simple generic models to support pest risk analysis.