Contents
List of Figures ...........................................................................................................ix
List of Tables...........................................................................................................xiii
Preface.....................................................................................................................xxi
Acknowledgments..................................................................................................xxv
Chapter 1 Invasive Alien Plant Species............................................................1
Chapter 2 Risk Assessment of Invasive Alien Plant Species ..........................7
Chapter 3 Preliminaries..................................................................................11
Chapter 4 Modeling Quantitative Parameters ................................................23
Chapter 5 Interval Function Approximation Techniques...............................39
Chapter 6 Modeling with the Fuzzy Linguistic Approach.............................49
Chapter 7 Modeling with the Fuzzy Linguistic 2-tuple Approach with Unbalanced
Linguistic Terms Set.......................................................73
Chapter 8 Evaluation of Invasion Risk with Quantitative Parameters ...........87
Chapter 9 Evaluation of Invasion Risk Intervals with Quantitative and Qualitative
Parameters.........................................................................113
Chapter 10 Evaluation of Invasion Risk Levels with Symmetrically Distributed
Linguistic Terms Sets.....................................................127
Chapter 11 Evaluation of Invasion Risk Levels with Asymmetrically Distributed
Linguistic Terms Sets.....................................................159
Bibliography .........................................................................................................173
Index......................................................................................................................181
