Ressourcen Stichwort: Invasive Species

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  1. A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests

    01.01.2010 Invasions of non-native plants into forests of the Southern United States continue to go unchecked and only partially unmonitored. These infestations increasingly erode forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called...
    Forest Invasive Pl... Invasive Species

  2. Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's list of invasive species: Emphasizing those found at ECHO and management practices involved

    05.03.2007 The purpose of this notebookis to list the adverse effects exotic pest plants have on Florida's biodiversity and plant communites, the habitat losses from exotic pest plant infestations, the impacts on endangered species via habitat loss and alteration, the need to prevent habitat losses through...
    Invasive Species

  3. CABI - Striga asiatica (witch weed)

    S. asiaticais a hemiparasitic plant, native to Africa and Asia. In common with most other parasitic weeds, it is not especially invasive in natural vegetation, but is much feared in crop land where infestations can build up to ruinous levels, especially with repeated growing of susceptible cereal...
    Invasive Species

  4. Guide to the naturalized and invasive plants of Eastern Africa

    20.01.2017 Both in Ethiopia and in the countries of East Africa, the continuing proliferation and spread of invasive alien species (IAS) is now recognized as a serious problem, which needs to be addressed. While this situation has improved dramatically over the past 10 years, further progress has been...
    Invasives Aquatic organisms Aquatic Weeds Introduced Species Invasive Species Weed Control Weeds East Africa

  5. Guide to the naturalized and invasive plants of Southeast Asia

    20.01.2017 Despite the significant impacts of alien plant species (IAS), there has not been a concerted effort to tackle the problem across the region. This can mainly be ascribed to a lack of policy, little awareness and limited capacity at a national and regional level. The UN Environment-Global...
    Invasives Invasive Species Introduced Species Mapping Monitoring Weed Control Weeds Asia

  6. Guide to the naturalized and invasive plants of Laikipia

    20.01.2017 Cradled between the Aberdare Mountains and Mount Kenya, Laikipia County is a land-use model for arid and semi-arid lands in Kenya. Its unique combination of large-scale ranches and community-owned lands host wildlife populations unrivalled in other parts of Kenya. Laikipia hosts the highest...
    Invasives Invasive Species Introduced Species Weed Control Weeds Monitoring East Africa

  7. USDA Invasive Species Information Center

    TheNational Invasive Species Information Center (NISIC)was established in 2005 atUSDA'sNational Agricultural Library (NAL)to meet the information needs of users including theNational Invasive Species Council.Executive Order 13112established the Council in 1999. NISICmanages the...
    Invasive Species Weeds

  8. Invasive Species Specialist Group

    The Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) is a global network of scientific and policy experts on invasive species, organized under the auspices of the Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ISSG was established in 1994. It currently...
    Invasive Species

  9. Threats Of Invasive Alien Plant Species

    Abstract,Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, 2015 Invasive alien plant species have threatened the integrity of ecosystems throughout the world. They affect not only the species diversity of native ecosystems but also threaten their biological integrity. In India, a number of...
    Invasive Species