Australian acacias: Useful and (sometimes) weedy

Biological Invasions

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2229-2233

  Kull, Christian A ^a   Tassin, Jacques ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TA C 105 D Campus International de Baillarguet   (France)

Author keywords

Acacia; Agroforestry; Conflict of interest; Culture; Ideology; Invasive alien species; Perception; Plant introduction; Scale

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT AID; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; IDEOLOGY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LEGUME; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; POLITICAL PROCESS; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ACACIA;

EID: 84867404153     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0244-7     Document Type: Article

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