Comparing the outputs of five weed risk assessment models implemented in Australia: Are there consistencies across models?

Plant Protection Quarterly

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-35

  Stone, Lynley M ^a   Byrne, Margaret ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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