The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about wattles, a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the different histories of the introductions and proliferation of wattles as alien species in different parts of the world since c. 1850 (the Anthropocene), situated within relevant political, socio-economic and scientific contexts, together with an analysis of how awareness of their impacts as invasive species has changed over time. Differences in the dynamics and trends associated with the introduction, naturalization and invasion of wattles in different parts of the world are reviewed. The book also synthesizes the global distribution of wattles using diverse data sources, alongside trends, patterns and projections of global uses of wattles. It discusses the genetics, biotic interactions, and ecological, economic and social impacts of invasive wattles.
The first comprehensive global synthesis in book form of aspects of the biology, ecology, biogeography, and management of one of the world's most important woody plant genera, this book provides the foundation for the assessment of evidence-based information required to formulate sustainable management strategies for non-native plants that have both benefits and negative impacts and sheds new light on many aspects of plant invasion science.
This book is aimed at academics and students in the field of ecology, and at managers of natural and anthropic ecosystems, policy-makers and regulators, and the general public interested in biology and environmental science.
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This book is aimed at academics and students in the field of ecology, scientific managers of natural ecosystems, policy-makers and regulators.
Chapter 1: Australian Acacia species around the world: Historical,
social, evolutionary, and ecological insights into one of the planets most
widespread plant genera Part I: The Species Pool
Chapter 2: Acacia: taxonomy
and phylogeny
Chapter 3: The macroecology of Acacia in Australia
Chapter 4:
Conservation and management of Acacia in Australia
Chapter 5: Linking the
functional traits of Australian Acacia species to their geographic
distribution and invasion status
Chapter 6: Invasion genetics of Australian
Acacia species
Chapter 7: Intraspecific genetic and ecological
differentiation in Australian Acacia species: Insights from A. longifolia
Part II: History and the Global Conquest
Chapter 8: The Anthropocene Acacia:
A History
Chapter 9: The global distribution of Acacia
Chapter 10: Australian
Acacia species in Europe
Chapter 11: Australian Acacia species in California:
Introduction pathways, invasion, and impact
Chapter 12: Australian Acacia
species in Africa
Chapter 13: History, patterns and impacts of invasive
Australian Acacia species in South America: The case of Brazil and Chile
Chapter 14: Australian Acacia species in New Zealand: Introduction,
Invasibility, and Impact
Chapter 15: Global uses of Australian Acacia
species: Recent trends and future prospects
Chapter 16: The shifting place of
Australian Acacia species around the world: Adoption, uses and perceptions
Part III: Biotic Interactions
Chapter 17: Reproductive mutualisms of
Australian Acacia species
Chapter 18: Co-invasion by Australian Acacia
species and rhizobium mutualists
Chapter 19: Novel weapons, allelopathy and
phytotoxicity: Clarifying the role of phytochemistry in the invasiveness of
Australian Acacia species
Chapter 20: Diseases and insect pests of Australian
Acacia species utilized in plantation forestry
Chapter 21: Biological control
of Acacia species: History, progress, and prospects Part IV: Ecological and
Social Impacts
Chapter 22: Ecological impacts and changes in ecosystem
services and disservices mediated by invasive Australian Acacia species
Chapter 23: Evidence-based impact assessment for naturalized and invasive
Australian Acacia species
Chapter 24: Responses of soil bacterial communities
to invasive Australian Acacia species over large spatial scales
Chapter 25:
New forests and new forest people in central Vietnam: the Acacia boom Part V:
Managing Invasive Wattles
Chapter 26: Controlling invasive Australian Acacia
species: The South African story
Chapter 27: Management of invasive
Australian Acacia species in the Iberian Peninsula
Chapter 28: Management of
invasive Australian Acacia species: contributions from citizen science,
volunteer groups, and public awareness raising
Chapter 29: Remote sensing of
invasive Australian Acacia species: State of the art and future perspectives
Chapter 30: Modelling invasion by Australian Acacia species: Progress,
challenges and opportunities Part VI: The "WATTLES" Invasion Syndrome
Chapter
31: The WATTLES invasion syndrome
David M. Richardson (Edited By) David M. Richardson was Director of the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology in South Africa between 2011 and 2022. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His research focuses on biological invasions, mainly plant invasions. David is author or co-author of over 500 journal papers and book chapters and several books, including Invasion Dynamics (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Invading Ecological Networks (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He has edited or co-edited nine books, including Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Fifty Years of Invasion Ecology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), Biological Invasions in South Africa (Springer, 2022) and Plant Invasions: The Role of Biotic Interactions (CABI, 2022). He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Diversity and Distributions between 1998 and 2015. David was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize for 2006 by the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 2012 received the John F.W. Herschel Medal, the senior medal of the Royal Society of South Africa, and in 2019 was recipient of the African Union's Kwame Nkrumah Award for Scientific Excellence (Continental). Most of his work on this book was done while he was on sabbatical leave with support from the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic.
Johannes J. Le Roux (Edited By) Johannes Le Roux is an Associate Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is also an International Research Associate at the Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is a plant biologist, broadly interested in the ecology and evolutionary biology of invasive species. Jaco's research traverses spatial and temporal scales, from studying the microevolutionary dynamics of populations to interpreting the biogeography of plant species. He is author or co-author of over 130 journal publications and book chapters and is the sole author of the book The Evolutionary Ecology of Invasive Species (Academic Press, 2022). Jaco is a long-standing associate editor for several international journals, including Biological Invasions, Conservation Genetics, Austral Ecology and Oecologia.
Elizabete Marchante (Edited By) Elizabete Marchante is a researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where she co-coordinates a Research Group on Biological Invasions, focusing on the ecology and biocontrol of invasive alien plants. She has published dozens of articles, books and book chapters in collaboration with researchers from all over the world, and has presented her work at over 170 conferences and seminars. She has been involved in 25 national and international projects, including the release of the first biocontrol agent against an invasive plant in Portugal. She is actively involved in public awareness and scientific dissemination, invasive plant management and ecosystem restoration, involving collaboration with national and local authorities, conservation organisations and private companies. She is co-coordinator of the Portuguese platform INVASORAS.PT which disseminates information on invasive plants and promotes citizen science and various outreach initiatives involving different audiences. She has collaborated with DG-Env of the European Commission, IPBES, IUCN, EASIN-JRC, and EPPO.
