Biological control of plant invaders: Regional patterns, field experiments, and structured population models

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 387-401

  McEvoy, Peter B ^a,c   Coombs, Eric M ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Oregon Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Competition; Ecosystem services; Elasticity analysis; Functional groups; Herbivores as control agents; Invasive species, biological control; Longitarsus jacobaeae; Pest control; Redundancy in ecological systems; Senecio jacobaea; Tyria jacobaeae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; MODEL; WEED;

LONGITARSUS JACOBAEA; SENECIO JACOBAEA; TYRIA JACOBAEAE;

EID: 0033135620     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0387:BCOPIR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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