By Leyli Borner (INRAE) on Wednesday, 20 December 2023
Category: Monitoring

Interactive map of Europe's suitability for the Japanese beetle

Here is an interactive map showing the suitability of Europe for the Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica). 

This map is the result of our INRAE team's modelling efforts and shows predictions of environmental suitability. You can read more about this work in our previous blog post and in our recent publication (Borner et al., 2023).

The map can be viewed directly below.

All figures and maps, as well as the data and script (written in the R programming environment) are freely available here: https://doi.org/10.57745/GM2YVL.

Clicking on the button below will take you to the page where you can access the interactive map showing the suitability of Europe for the Japanese beetle in full screen.

In addition to the suitability map, our dataset also includes files used in our modelling approach, such as:

The extent of the raster files is global, the spatial resolution of the raster files is 4 km x 4 km.

 References

Borner L, Martinetti D, Poggi S (2023) A new chapter of the Japanese beetle invasion saga: predicting suitability from long-invaded areas to inform surveillance strategies in Europe. Entomologia Generalis 43:951–960. https://doi.org/10.1127/entomologia/2023/2073

Borner L, Martinetti D, Poggi S (2023) Data for "A new chapter of the Japanese beetle invasion saga: predicting suitability from long-infested areas to inform surveillance strategies in Europe." Recherche Data Gouv, V2. https://doi.org/10.57745/GM2YVL 

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