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Weed risk assessmentBy R.H. Groves, F.D. Panetta and J.G. Virtue
Published in 2001 by CSIRO Publishing, hard cover, 256 pages
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ISBN 064306561X, |
Risk assessment applied to potentially invasive plants is a new and developing discipline that may help to reduce the number of new plants entering a region that subsequently become weeds. This is the first publication to explore the discipline of risk assessment as applied to the invasion ecology of plants.
Taking a global context, it synthesizes recent theories on plant invasions, introduces a variety of models for weed risk assessment, and addresses procedures for ranking invasive species on a range of scales to determine weeds of national significance. It shows how the application of risk assessment to weed invasion may help reduction of weed impact and thereby improve living conditions as well as economic and biodiversity loss.
This book is aimed both at invasion ecologists wanting to know more about their developing discipline whilst at the same time it seeks to attract the attention of policy makers and quarantine services in all regions of the world.