Ensuring invasive alien plant management delivers biodiversity conservation: Insights from an assessment of Lantana camara in Australia

Plant Protection Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 102-110

  Turner, Peter J ^a   Downey, Paul O ^a  

^a OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENT AND HERITAGE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Plan to Protect Environmental Assets from Lantana; Prioritization; Sites for control; Triage; Weed Impacts to Native Species (WINS) assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA;

EID: 77952628637     PISSN: 08152195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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