We review key issues, available approaches and analyses to encourage and assist
practitioners to develop sound plans to evaluate the effectiveness of weed biological control …

Highlights•Post-release monitoring in classical biological control (CBC) of weeds remains
neglected.•There is a particular lack of rigorous monitoring of community and ecosystem …

Invasive alien plants have serious economic and ecological impacts, for example, by
displacing native plants and invertebrates, and their management is often costly and …

Abstract The Great Plains of North America encompass approximately 1,300,000 km 2 of
land from Texas to Saskatchewan. The integrity of these lands is under continual assault by …

Invasive non-native plants (INNP) cause severe impacts on nature and human well-being,
and these are predicted to increase. While management tools have been developed to …

The aquatic weed Salvinia molesta DS Mitch.(Salviniaceae) was first recorded in South
Africa in the early 1900s, and by the 1960s was regarded as one of South Africa's worst …

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria L., Lythraceae) is considered one of the worst invasive
plant species in the world. In this paper, I reconstruct how purple loosestrife quickly became …

Integrating classical biological control with other management techniques such as herbicide,
fire, mechanical control, grazing, or plant competition, can be the most effective way to …

We present evidence that populations of an invasive plant species that have become re‐
associated with a specialist herbivore in the exotic range through biological control have …

Water hyacinth is invasive in many countries, where it reduces aquatic biodiversity and limits
water resource utilisation. Biological control of water hyacinth has been successful in South …