Tackling contentious invasive plant species: A case study of Buffel grass in Australia

Environmental Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 285-294

  Grice, Anthony C ^a   Friedel, Margaret H ^a   Marshall, Nadine A ^a   Van Klinken, Rieks D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contentious plants; Invasion; Policy; Production; Strategy; Weed

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONTENTIOUS PLANTS; GENETIC MATERIALS; INVASION; INVASIVE PLANTS; LAND MANAGERS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PLANT SPECIES; PRODUCTION VALUE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; STRATEGY; WEED;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PRODUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY;

CONSERVATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GRASS; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIONAL PLANNING; PLANT; POLICY APPROACH; STRATEGIC APPROACH; WEED;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CENCHRUS CILIARIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GRASS; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WEED CONTROL;

AUSTRALIA; CENCHRUS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; INTRODUCED SPECIES;

AUSTRALIA;

CENCHRUS CILIARIS;

EID: 84856969551     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9781-6     Document Type: Article

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