Supporting Information.docx

The file “Supporting Information.docx” contains 12 appendices related to the paper "Selecting simultaneous actions of different durations to optimally manage an ecological network" (2017): <br>1) Description of Markov decision processes.<br>2) Calculation of the number of states of the exact model.<br>3) Proofs of upper and lower bounds.<br>4) Description of the inputs parameters required for the program.<br>5) Table of the effectiveness of different management actions on all Torres Strait Islands.<br>6) Belief Bayesian network providing the effectiveness of actions depending on four islands characteristics.<br>7) Parameters used in the Cauchy formula for the low and high transmissions.<br>8) Human population size and distances between islands.<br>9) Mean time until infestation of mainland Australia for the three models and six rules of thumb.<br>10) Prioritisation ranking on four islands for low and high transmission probabilities.<br>11) Relative errors of model performances compared to the upper bound with different sub-action durations.<br>12) Computational times of the exact, lower bound and upper bound models for low transmission probabilities.