Evaluation of weed eradication programs: Containment and extirpation

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-41

  Panetta, F Dane ^a  

^a The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Containment; Delimitation; Eradication; Extirpation; Pest organism; Weed

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONTAINMENT; MONITORING; REPRODUCTION; WEED CONTROL;

EID: 33846076553     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00294.x     Document Type: Article

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