Assessment and Management of Plant InvasionsJames O. Luken, John W. Thieret Springer Science & Business Media, 3 janv. 1997 - 324 pages Biological invasion of native plant communities is a high-priority problem in the field of environmental management. Resource managers, biologists, and all those involved in plant communities must consider ecological interactions when assessing both the effects of plant invasion and the long-term effects of management. Sections of the book cover human perceptions of invading plants, assessment of ecological interactions, direct management, and regulation and advocacy. It also includes an appendix with descriptive data for many of the worst weeds. |
Table des matières
Contributors | 2 |
An Introduction | 7 |
Defining Weeds of Natural Areas | 18 |
Potential Valuable Ecological Functions | 26 |
Documenting Natural and HumanCaused Plant Invasions Using | 37 |
Community Response to Plant Invasion | 56 |
Impacts of Invasive Plants on Community and Ecosystem Properties | 69 |
Driving Forces Behind | 87 |
Implicating Ecological Succession | 133 |
Methods for Management of Nonindigenous Aquatic Plants | 145 |
Biological Control of Weeds in the United States and Canada | 172 |
Prioritizing Invasive Plants and Planning for Management | 195 |
Prevention of Invasive Plant Introductions on National and Local Levels | 215 |
Cooperating to Assess and Control Invasive | 228 |
Interagency Cooperation to Control Giant Cane | 244 |
Selected Plant Species Interfering with Resource Management | 255 |
Interactions with Other Agents | 95 |
Experimental Design for Plant Removal and Restoration | 104 |
Response of a Forest Understory Community to Experimental Removal | 117 |
References | 268 |
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