Table 2-3. Percent of plans implicitly or explicitly 
accounting for changing conditions 
Plan chapter 
Percent of plans 
Leadership and coordination 
8% 
Prevention 
16% 
EDRR 
12% 
Control and management 
4% 
Restoration 
0% 
Research 
40% 
Information management 
0% 
Education and public awareness 
12% 
about changing conditions would be valuable in order to adapt management activities. Thus, 
regional coordination, links between research and implementation, and decisions about the scale 
of monitoring could be included in invasive species management plans to build on their existing 
capacity. 
2.3.4. Plan Revisions and Funding 
Most of the state plans include language about periodic revisions (64%), which indicates 
a high capacity to include new information and update goals and activities. Hawaii’s plan even 
recommends a regular update specifically to address and adapt to changing conditions (Shluker, 
2003). Thus, state plan revisions may include information about climate change effects in the 
future. Although only 16% of states reviewed specify a source for 100% of the required funding 
for their actions (i.e., Missouri, Oregon, South Carolina, and Wisconsin), most state plans do 
identify some funding associated with their goals and activities (64%). This identification of 
funding indicates an overall high capacity for states to accomplish tasks in management plans. 
Combined with periodic revisions, the allotment of funding demonstrates that many of these 
states could accomplish activities that may ameliorate climate-change effects on their invasive 
species programs. 
2.3.5. Adaptive Capacity in Regional Plans 
Table 2-4 gives an overall score for how each regional plan addresses climate change and 
demonstrates a capacity to adapt to changing condition. The plans were scored using the same 
scoring system set up for state AIS management plans and shown Table 2-1. One of the seven 
regional AIS management plans, the Lake Champlain Aquatic Nuisance Species Management 
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