A battle lost? Report on two centuries of invasion and management of Lantana camara L. in Australia, India and South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bhagwat, Shonil A ^a,b   Breman, Elinor ^b   Thekaekara, Tarsh ^b   Thornton, Thomas F ^a,b   Willis, Katherine J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; INDIA; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANTANA CAMARA; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES INVASION; WEED CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HISTORY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LANTANA;

LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA;

AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INDIA; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LANTANA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84857706104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032407     Document Type: Article

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