Barnabas Lindars, Myeers, Judith H. Myers

Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on introduced plant species: their origins and impacts on native vegetation and ecosystems as well as the potential for their control. Aimed at advanced students and land managers concerned with plant community conservation, it includes practical explanations, case studies and an introduction to basic techniques for evaluating the impacts of invasive plants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 534g
• ISBN-13: 9780521357784
• ISBN-10: 0521357780
• Artikelnr.: 21923754

Autorenporträt

Judith H. Myers is a Professor in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Planet of weeds: exotics in the landscape
3. Ecosystem, community composition, richness and dynamics
4. Life history characteristics and predicting invasiveness
5. Population ecology
6. Introduced plant diseases
7. Classical biological control of exotic weeds
8. Models of invasive plant populations
9. Cultural control of invasive species
10. Conserving and restoring natural communities
11. Some tools for studying plant populations
12. Conclusions: what the future holds.