Applying a simulation model to the management of an infestation of Miconia calvescens in the wet tropics of Australia

Weed Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-279

  Hester, S M ^a   Brooks, S J ^b   Cacho, O J ^a   Panetta, F D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cost; Economics; Eradication; Invasive species; Matrix model; Predictive modelling; Search theory

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL PROVISION; INVASIVE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; WEED;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

MICONIA CALVESCENS;

EID: 77953756016     PISSN: 00431737     EISSN: 13653180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3180.2010.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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