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Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST)

CMIST is a peer-reviewed screening-level risk assessment tool for marine invasive species (Drolet et al. 2016). It is a short questionnaire that follows the invasion process from arrival to impact and is designed so an informed assessor can evaluate one species in an assessment area in approximately one day using easily accessible information from internet databases, primary literature, and grey literature. Species can be those with an invasion history in an area or those that are candidates for future invasions.

CMIST is score-based and incorporates both likelihood and impact of invasion as well as uncertainty. Questions are general to make CMIST broadly applicable to different taxa, different assessment areas, and different project goals. To date, CMIST has been tested with molluscs, tunicates, crustaceans, and polychaetes introduced or at risk of introduction to three Canadian marine ecoregions (DFO 2009). CMIST has also been successfully applied to non-indigenous freshwater fish in British Columbia with adapted guidelines (T. Therriault, pers. comm.). Upon completion, CMIST produces a risk score adjusted for the assessor’s uncertainty which, combined with information collected during the assessment, can be used to assist in management decisions. For example, in 2015, CMIST assessments were used to identify high risk invaders in three Canadian marine ecoregions (DFO 2016).

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Date ( RI_367 )
2024-04-30
Date ( RI_366 )
2024-04-11
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Ecosystem and Ocean Science - CESD Data Manager ( )
Canada
Status
onGoing; enContinue RI_596
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Oceans
  • Marine biology
  • Biology
  • Biological diversity
  • Invasive species
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Spatial representation type
textTable; texteTable RI_637
Metadata language
fre; CAN
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Oceans
Begin date
2013-03
End date
2014-10
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Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 /
Distribution format
  • CSV ( NA )

  • ESRI REST ( 2.8.8 )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - ( )
Canada
OnLine resource
CMIST dataset ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

File identifier
4d0f0189-223b-420e-ba41-334eeb55e9fc XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-04-30T10:34:17.475Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Ecosystem and Ocean Science - Claudio DiBacco ( Researcher )
Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , Canada
 
 

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