Inferring the absence of an incipient population during a rapid response for an invasive species

• Amy A. Yackel Adams ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy A. Yackel Adams, Björn Lardner

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yackela@usgs.gov

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-8447

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• Björn Lardner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Amy A. Yackel Adams, Björn Lardner

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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• Adam J. Knox,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Maui Invasive Species Committee, Makawao, Hawaii, United States of America

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Brown Treesnake Project, Dededo, Guam, United States of America

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• Robert N. Reed

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

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