Weed Risk Assessment
Contents: Preface. Overviews: 1. What tools do we have to detect invasive plant species?/M. Rejmanek. 2. The search for patterns that enable prediction of invasion/S. Reichard. 3. Can the impacts of invasive species be predicted?/M. Williamson. 4. Priorities for weed risk assessment: using a landscape context to assess indicators of functions, services and values/L.A. Wainger and D.M. King. 5. Evaluating pest-screening systems-insights from epidemiology and ecology/W.M. Lonsdale and C.S. Smith. 6. A comparison of systems to analyze potential weed distributions/D.J. Kriticos and R.P. Randall. National Perspectives: 7. Weed risk assessment for plant introductions to Australia/P.C. Pheloung. 8. Implementation of a permitted list approach to plant introductions to Australia/C.S. Walton. 9. Assessing the risk to indigenous biota of plant taxa new to New Zealand/P.A. Williams, E. Nicol and M. Newfield. 10. Pest risk assessment in the United States: guidelines for qualitative assessments for weeds/P.P. Lehtonen. 11. Towards a system to determine the national significance of weeds in Australia/J.G. Virtue, R.H. Groves and F.D. Panetta. Regional perspectives: 12. Invasive plant problems and requirements for weed risk assessment in the Galapagos Islands/A. Tye. 13. Weed risk assessment and prevention in Hawaii: status and practicalities/P.A. Thomas. 14. Commercial use, physical distribution, and invasiveness description: three reasons why Florida still struggles with invasive plants/R.K. Stocker. 15. The effect of introduction pressure on the naturalization of ornamental woody plants in South-Eastern Australia/M. Mulvaney. 16. A weed risk assessment model for aquatic weeds in New Zealand/P.D. Champion and J.S. Clayton. 17. Categorizing invasive plants: the challenge of rating the weeds already in California/J.M. Randall, N. Benton and L.E. Morse. 18. Scary species, superlative sites: assessing weed risk in New Zealand\'s protected natural areas/S.M. Timmins and S.J. Owen. Synthesis: 19. Weed risk assessment: core issues and future directions/F.D. Panetta, A.P. Mackey, J.G. Virtue and R.H. Groves. Index.
"The impact of invasive species on native vegetation is a major threat to biodiversity all over the world - a threat ranked second only to habitat destruction. Other negative effects of weed invasions include reduced ecosystem services. Losses to agricultural production and impacts on human health.
Weed Risk Assessment is the first publication to explore the discipline of risk assessment as applied to the invasion ecology of plants. Taking a global context it synthesizes recent theories on plant invasions. Introduces a variety of models for weed risk assessment. And addresses procedures for ranking invasive species on a range of scales to determine the relative significance of weeds. It shows how the application of risk assessment to weed invasion may help reduce weed impact and thereby improve living conditions for people throughout the world.
Weed Risk Assessment is aimed at invasion ecologists, botanists, quarantine and noxious weed officers, policy-makers and community groups wanting to know more about this developing discipline. Written by some of the world\'s leading authorities in the area, it will serve as a benchmark publication from which to assess progress in this new field of endeavour."
