The Bio-Protection Research Centre's expertise in weed ecology and invasion processes has led to collaborations in a number of related projects. These include:

Assessing Large Scale Risks to Biodiversity Using Tested Methods
Development of risk assessment tools for a wide range of alien taxa in aquatic and terrestrial environments including new approaches to pathway and impact analyses.
Project Contact: Professor Philip E. Hulme, Lincoln University
Further details: http://www.alarmproject.net

Enhancement of Pest Risk Assessment Techniques (PRATIQUE)
The purpose of Pest Risk Assessment Techniques (PRATIQUE) is to assemble the datasets required to construct effective pest risk assessments valid for the whole of the EU, to conduct multi-disciplinary research that enhances techniques used in PRA and to develop an improved web-based, user-friendly decision support scheme.
Project Contact: Professor Philip E. Hulme, Lincoln University
Further details: https://secure.csl.gov.uk/pratique/index.cfm