Exploring pest mitigation research and management associated with the global wood packaging supply chain: What and where are the weak links?

• Published in: Biological invasions Vol. 25; no. 8; pp. 2395 - 2421
• Main Authors: Greenwood, Leigh F., Coyle, David R., Guerrero, María E., Hernández, Gustavo, MacQuarrie, Chris J. K., Trejo, Oscar, Noseworthy, Meghan K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.08.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomedical and Life Sciences; Contamination; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Fraud; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; International trade; Life Sciences; North America; Packaging; Packaging materials; Pallets; Pests; Plant Sciences; Review; risk; Risk management; Risk reduction; Storage conditions; supply chain; Supply chains; Wood; North America; Contaminating; Invasive species; Non-indigenous pests; Invasion pathways; Infesting; Wood packaging material; Dunnage; Pallets
• ISSN: 1387-3547; 1573-1464
• DOI: 10.1007/s10530-023-03058-8

Global trade continues to increase in volume, speed, geographic scope, diversity of goods, and types of conveyances, which has resulted in a parallel increase in both quantity and types of pathways available for plant pests to move via trade. Wood packaging material (WPM) such as dunnage, pallets, c...