A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species. The authors seek to offer an accessible account of the subject and how to protect natural habitats. The majority of countries suffer from invasive plants and there are case studies from North America, Europe, Australia, South and South East Asia and the Pacific and Atlantic islands. There is also a list of invasive species, with their countries of origin and regions of introduction.
The `People and Plants Initiative ix Alan Hamilton Panel of Advisers xi Preface xii Acknowledgements xiv The nature of plant invasion 1(14) What are invasive plants? 1(1) Plant invasion and conservation 2(5) Where is invasion happening? 7(8) How invasion occurs 15(20) Process of invasion 15(4) Historical aspects of plant translocation 19(5) Characteristics of invasive species 24(5) Taxonomic patterns of invasion 29(1) Predicting invasion 30(5) Action against invasive plants 35(26) Education and awareness 35(1) Legislation 36(2) Preventing introduction and spread 38(3) Information and recording 41(2) Planning a control program 43(4) Physical control 47(3) Chemical control 50(3) Biological control (biocontrol) 53(5) Environment management control 58(1) Prospects for the future 59(2) Case studies of some important invasive species 61(66) Introduction 61(1) Species accounts 62(65) Acacia saligna (Labill.) Wendl. (Leguminosae) 62(5) Andropogon virginicus L. (Gramineae) 67(2) Clematis vitalba L. (Ranunculaceae) 69(4) Clidemia hirta (L.) D.Don. (Melastomataceae) 73(3) Hakea sericea Schrad. et Wendl. (Proteaceae) 76(3) Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss (Hydrocharitaceae) 79(3) Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae) 82(4) Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) Blake (Myrtaceae) 86(4) Mimosa pigra L. (Leguminosae) 90(5) Myrica faya Ait. (Myricaceae) 95(3) Passiflora mollissima (H.B.K.) Bailey (Passifloraceae) 98(5) Pinus radiata D. Don (Pinaceae) 103(4) Pittosporum undulatum Vent. (Pittosporaceae) 107(4) Psidium cattleianum Sabine (Myrtaceae) 111(3) Rhododendron ponticum L. (Ericaceae) 114(5) Salvinia molesta D. Mitch. (Salviniaceae) 119(4) Sesbania punicea (Cav.) Benth. (Leguminosae) 123(4) Representative invasive species 127(74) Key to brief accounts of invasive species 127(2) Species list 129(72) Appendices 201(6) Appendix A --- Use of herbicides: some environmental cautions 201(2) Appendix B --- A selection of relevant addresses 203(4) Glossary 207(4) References 211(22) Index 233
Quentin Cronk is a lecturer at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and at the University of Edinburgh. Janice Fuller is a research associate at Harvard Forest, Harvard University.
