Evaluating the impact of a biological control agent Carmenta mimosa on the woody wetland weed Mimosa pigra in Australia

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1054-1062

  Paynter, Quentin ^a,b  

^a The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Competition; Enemy release hypothesis; Fire; Grazing; Invasive species

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MOTH; SEED BANK; SEED RAIN; WEED CONTROL;

ACANTHOSCELIDES; BRUCHINAE; CARMENTA MIMOSA; COELOCEPHALAPION PIGRAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MIMOSA; MIMOSA PIGRA; NEUROSTROTA GUNNIELLA;

EID: 31344478242     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01105.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Braithwaite, R.W. & Roberts, S. (1995) Between Bining and Balanda. Wildfire, 29, 29-37.
2. Braithwaite, R.W., Lonsdale, W.M. & Estbergs, J.A. (1989) Alien vegetation and native biota in tropical Australia: the spread and impact of Mimosa pigra. Biological Conservation, 48, 189-210.
3. Buckley, Y., Rees, M., Paynter, Q. & Lonsdale, M. (2004) Modelling integrated weed management of aninvasive shrub in tropical Australia, Mimosa pigra. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 547-560.
4. Cook, G.D., Setterfield, S.A. & Maddison, J.P. (1996) Shrub invasion of a tropical wetland: implications for weed management. Ecological Applications, 6, 513-537.
5. Denoth, M., Frid, L. & Myers, J.H. (2002) Multiple agents in biological control: improving the odds? Biological Control, 24, 20-30.
6. Heard, T.A., Paynter, Q., Chan, R. & Mira, A. (2004) Malacorhinus irregularis for biocontrol of Mimosa pigra: host-specificity, life cycle and establishment in Australia. Biological Control, 27, 252-262.
7. Hoffmann, J.H. & Moran, V.C. (1998) The population dynamics of an introduced tree, Sesbania punicea, in South Africa, in response to long-term damage caused by different combinations of three species of biological control agents. Oecologia, 114, 343-348.
8. van Klinken, R.D. & Edwards, O.R. (2002) Is host specificity of weed biological control agents likely to evolve rapidly following establishment? Ecology Letters, 5, 590-596.
9. Lonsdale, W.M. (1988) Litterfall in an Australian population of Mimosa pigra, an invasive tropical shrub. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 4, 381-392.
10. Lonsdale, W.M. (1992) The biology of Mimosa pigra. A Guide to the Management of Mimosa pigra (ed. K.L.S. Harley), pp. 8-32. CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
11. Lonsdale, W.M. (1993) Rates of spread of an invasive species: Mimosa pigra in northern Australia. Journal of Ecology, 81, 513-521.
12. Lonsdale, W.M. & Farrell, G. (1998) Testing the effects on Mimosa pigra of a biological control agent Neurostrota gunniella (Lepidoptera: Gracillaridae). plant competition and fungi under field conditions. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 8, 485-500.
13. Lonsdale, W.M. & Miller, I.L. (1993) Fire as a management tool for a tropical woody weed: Mimosa pigra in Northern Australia. Journal of Environmental Management, 30, 77-87.
14. Lonsdale, W.M., Harley, K. & Gillett, J.D. (1988) Seed bank dynamics in Mimosa pigra, an invasive tropical shrub. Journal of Applied Ecology, 25, 963-976.
15. Louda, S.M., Pemberton, R.W., Johnson, M.T. & Follett, P.A. (2003) Non-target effects: the Achilles' heel of biological control? Annual Review of Entomology, 48, 365-396.
16. McFadyen, R.E.C. (1998) Biological control of weeds. Annual Review of Entomology, 43, 369-393.
17. Nordblom, T.L., Smyth, M.J., Swirepik, A., Sheppard, A.W. & Briese, D.T. (2002) Spatial economics of biological control: investing in new releases of insects for earlier limitation of Paterson's curse in Australia. Agricultural Economics, 27, 403-424.
18. Ostermeyer, N. (2000) Population density and distribution of the biological control agent Carmenta mimosa on Mimosa pigra in the Adelaide and Finniss River catchments of the Northern Territory. Plant Protection Quarterly, 15, 46-50.
19. Parker, I.M. (2000) Invasion dynamics of Cytisus scoparius: a matrix model approach. Ecological Applications, 10, 726-743.
20. Paynter, Q. (2004) Evaluating Mimosa pigra biological control in Australia. Research and Management of Mimosa pigra, 3rd International Symposium on the Management of Mimosa pigra, 23-25 September 2002, Darwin, Australia (eds M. Julien, G. Flanagan, T. Heard, B. Hennecke, Q. Paynter & C. Wilson), pp. 141-148. CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
21. Paynter, Q. & Flanagan, G.J. (2004) Integrating herbicide and mechanical control treatments with fire and biological control to manage an invasive wetland shrub, Mimosa pigra. Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 615-629.
22. Paynter, Q. & Hennecke, B. (2001) Competition between two biological control agents, Neurostrota gunniella and Phloeospora mimosae-pigrae, and their impact on the invasive tropical shrub, Mimosa pigra. Biocontrol, Science and Technology, 11, 575-582.
23. Paynter, Q.E., Fowler, S.V., Gourlay, A.H., Haines, M.L., Harman, H.M., Hona, S.R., Peterson, P.G., Smith, L.A., Wilson-Davey, J.R.A., Winks, C.J. & Withers, T.M. (2004) Safety in New Zealand weed biocontrol: a nationwide survey for impacts on non-target plants. New Zealand Plant Protection, 57, 102-107.
24. Paynter, Q., Fowler, S.V., Hinz, H.L., Memmott, J., Shaw, R., Sheppard, A.W. & Syrett, P. (1996) Are seed-feeding insects of use for the biological control of broom? Proceedings of the IX International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 19-26 January 1996 (eds V.C. Moran & J.H. Hoffman), pp. 495-501. University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
25. Rees, M. & Paynter, Q. (1997) Biological control of Scotch broom: modelling the determinants of abundance and the potential impact of introduced insect herbivores. Journal of Applied Ecology, 34, 1203-1222.
26. Roques, K.G., O'Connor, T.G. & Watkinson, A.R. (2001) Dynamics of shrub encroachment in an African savanna: relative influences of fire, herbivory, rainfall and density dependence. Journal of Applied Ecology, 38, 268-280.
27. Rossiter, N.A., Setterfield, S.A., Douglas, M.M. & Hutley, L.B. (2003) Testing the grass-fire cycle: alien grass invasion in the tropical savannas of northern Australia. Diversity and Distributions, 9, 169-176.
28. Sheppard, A.W., Hill, R., DeClerck-Floate, R.A., McClay, A., Olckers, T., Quimby, P.C. Jr & Zimmermann, H.G. (2003) A global review of risk-benefit-cost analysis for the introduction of classical biological control agents against weeds: a crisis in the making? Biocontrol News and Information, 24, 91N-108N.
29. Smith, C.S. & Wilson, C.G. (1995) Close to the edge: microhabitat selection by Neurostrota gunniella (Busck) (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae), a biological control agent for Mimosa pigra L. in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 34, 177-180.
30. Steinbauer, M.J. (1998) Host plant phenotype and the impact and development of Carmenta mimosa, a biological control agent of Mimosa pigra in Australia. Biological Control, 13, 182-189.
31. Wilson, C.G. & Flanagan, G.J. (1991) Establishment of Acanthoscelides quadridentatus (Shaeffer) and A. puniceus Johnson (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) on Mimosa pigra in northern Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 30, 279-280.
32. Wilson, C.G. & Forno, I.W. (1995) The biological control program against Mimosa pigra. Australia's Northern Territory Proceedings of the VIII International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds, 2-7 February 1995 (eds E.S. Delfosse & R.R. Scott), pp. 75-80. Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.