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Title: Plant invaders : the threat to natural ecosystems / Quentin C.B. Cronk and Janice L. Fuller.
Author: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. ; Cronk, Quentin C. B. ; Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew) ; World Wide Fund for Nature Australia. ; Fuller, Janice L.
Year: 1995.
Series: People and plants conservation manuals.
Description: xiv, 241 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject: Plant conservation. ; Introduced species. ; Invasion. ; Plant introduction. ; Weeds.
Notes: "WWF International (World Wide Fund for Nature); UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK." Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 211-231.
ISBN/ISSN: 0412483807;
Type: Book
Abstract: The 'People and Plants' Initiative / Alan Hamilton -- 1. The nature of plant invasion -- 2. How invasion occurs -- 3. Action against invasive plants -- 4. Case studies of some important invasive species. Acacia saligna (Labill.) Wendl. (Leguminosae). Andropogon virginicus L. (Gramineae). Clematis vitalba L. (Ranunculaceae). Clidemia hirta (L.) D.Don. (Melastomataceae). Hakea sericea Schrad. et Wendl. (Proteaceae). Lagarosiphon major (Ridl.) Moss (Hydrocharitaceae). Lantana camara L. (Verbenaceae). Melaleu quinquenervia (Cav.) Blake (Myrtaceae). Mimosa pigra L. (Leguminosae). Myrica faya Ait. (Myricaceae). Passiflora mollissima (H.B.K.) Bailey (Passifloraceae). Pinus radiata D.Don (Pinaceae). Pittosporum undulatum Vent. (Pittosporaceae). Psidium cattleia
m Sabine (Myrtaceae). Rhododendron ponticum L. (Ericaceae). Salvinia molesta D.Mitch. (Salviniaceae). Sesbania punicea (Cav.) Benth. (Leguminosae) -- 5. Representative invasive species. Appendix A - Use of herbicides: some environmental cautions -- Appendix B - A selection of relevant addresses.
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