Typha (Cattail) Invasion in North American Wetlands: Biology, Regional Problems, Impacts, Ecosystem Services, and Management

S Bansal, SC Lishawa, S Newman, BA Tangen… - Wetlands, 2019 - Springer
Typha is an iconic wetland plant found worldwide. Hybridization and anthropogenic
disturbances have resulted in large increases in Typha abundance in wetland ecosystems …

A functional trait perspective on plant invasion

RE Drenovsky, BJ Grewell, CM D'antonio… - Annals of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Background and Aims Global environmental change will affect non-native plant invasions,
with profound potential impacts on native plant populations, communities and ecosystems …

Beyond control: wider implications for the management of biological invasions

PE Hulme - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Government departments, environmental managers and conservationists are all
facing escalating pressure to address and resolve a diversity of invasive alien species (IAS) …

Finding optimal control strategies for invasive species: a density‐structured model for Spartina alterniflora

CM Taylor, A Hastings - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 There are very few general guidelines available to improve the process of
eradicating invasive species. We addressed the basic question of whether it is more efficient …

Review of approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of weed biological control agents

L Morin, AM Reid, NM Sims-Chilton, YM Buckley… - Biological control, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …

Biological control of invasive plant species: a reassessment for the A nthropocene

TR Seastedt - New phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The science of finding, testing and releasing herbivores and pathogens to control invasive
plant species has achieved a level of maturity and success that argues for continued and …

Ecologically sustainable weed management: how do we get from proof‐of‐concept to adoption?

M Liebman, B Baraibar, Y Buckley… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Weed management is a critically important activity on both agricultural and non‐agricultural
lands, but it is faced with a daunting set of challenges: environmental damage caused by …

Disturbance, invasion and re‐invasion: managing the weed‐shaped hole in disturbed ecosystems

YM Buckley, BM Bolker, M Rees - Ecology letters, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We aim to develop a simple model to explore how disturbance and propagule pressure
determine conditions for successful invasion in systems where recruitment occurs only in …

General guidelines for invasive plant management based on comparative demography of invasive and native plant populations

S Ramula, TM Knight, JH Burns… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 General guidelines for invasive plant management are currently lacking.
Population declines may be achieved by focusing control on demographic processes …

Classical biological control: exploiting enemy escape to manage plant invasions

H Müller-Schärer, U Schaffner - Biological Invasions, 2008 - Springer
Practitioners of classical biological control of invasive weeds are confronted with a dual
expectation: to achieve successful control of plant invaders and to avoid damage to …