An app for monitoring the population of Golden Mussels

Abstract

This work shows the construction of a simple, functional and real-time application to estimate the population dynamics of the Golden Mussel, an invasive species that has been causing great ecological and economic damage, particularly to the electricity sector by obstructing water collection routes of hydroelectric plant equipment. The tool Golden Mussel App, developed with Shiny package of the R©, programming language, aims to enable professionals engaged in harm reduction in the energy generation sector to follow the temporal evolution of populations, even without advanced knowledge about the mathematical modeling of the problem. In this way, the application configures itself as an auxiliary tool in the planning of actions to control the Golden Mussel

Keywords

• biological invasion
• population dynamics
• ordinary differential equations
• software development