Search results for 'do:"17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010"'
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Risk assessment predicts success at the introduction and naturalisation but not the spread stages of invasion for commercial forestry trees (Pinus spp.).
McGregor, K. F.; Watt, M. S.; Hulme, P. E.; Duncan, R. P.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 194, 1 ref. Exotic trees, particularly conifers in the genus Pinus, introduced for commercial forestry have become invaders worldwide. New Zealand's government is committed to a 250,000 ha expansion of planted forests by 2025 to mitigate the impacts of climate change...
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Gone with the wind: high-resolution analysis of pine dispersal in New Zealand mountains.
Caplat, P.; Coutts, S.; Buckley, Y. M.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 190-193, 18 ref. Amongst the world's invasive plant species, those of the genus Pinus are widespread and conspicuous. In many parts of the world pine trees were planted for production purposes or erosion control, and are now spreading well outside the plantations, threate...
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The detection of weeds on Australian farms.
Sindel, B. M.; Coleman, M.; Schneider, A.; Reeve, I.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 186-189, 8 ref. The first step in controlling invasive weeds is successful detection. A large proportion of Australia is privately owned or managed by farmers and graziers who are dedicated to weed detection. Likewise, public officers in most States and Territories have ...
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Colonisation of agricultural regions in Western Australia by Conyza bonariensis.
Borger, C. P. D.; Doncon, G.; Hashem, A.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 182-185, 10 ref. Conyza bonariensis is common throughout the wheat-belt of Western Australia (WA), as a weed of wastelands, but has the capacity to invade cropping systems. The feasibility of slowing the rate of invasion depends on the rate of short distance seed dispersa...
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Mimosa pigra L. - a new incursion into Western Australia.
Lloyd, S. G.; Vinnicombe, T. L.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 180-181, 2 ref. In November 2009, Mimosa pigra was found for the first time in Western Australia in the remote Kimberley region. An emergency response was called with the first ground and aerial surveillance taking place on 17 November 2009, a teleconference to allocate ...
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Persicaria chinensis - a new alien Asian invader?
Galloway, D. J.; Lepper, V. E.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 174-175, 3 ref. A site of Chinese knotweed (Persicaria chinensis (L.)) H. Gross (1913) was recently identified on eight properties in North Shore City, Auckland. This paper describes the response to this incursion.
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Reducing the threat of a nationally significant weed to biodiversity: four years of implementation of the NSW Bitou Bush Threat Abatement Plan.
Hamilton, M. A.; Turner, P. J.; Rendell, N.; Downey, P. O.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 166-169, 15 ref. Widespread weed species are unlikely to be eradicated, thus control efforts need to focus on containment and asset-protection. In 2006, the NSW Bitou Bush Threat Abatement Plan (Bitou TAP) outlined an approach for the protection of environmental assets fr...
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Predicting invasion success: a basic framework using plant functional traits.
Gross, N. P.; Duncan, R.; Hulme, P. E.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 162-165, 13 ref. Looking for important traits that could predict species invasions is a major goal in ecology. Universal traits, i.e. traits uniquely related to invasion are rare. The relative importance of particular traits can change depending on the local context. Rece...
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Are transformer weeds ecological rule breakers?
Sheppard, A. W.; Catford, J. A.; Daehler, C. C.; Hardesty, D.; Murphy, H. T.; Pergl, J.; Rejmanek, M.; Westcott, D. A.; Bellingham, P. J.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 158-161, 18 ref. Transformer weeds are increasingly recognised for the high impact that they have on native communities through transforming ecosystem processes and function. Various types of transformer weeds have been described, but the manner through which they dominat...
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Assessment of herbicides for selectively controlling broom (Cytisus scoparius) growing with Pinus radiata.
Tran, H.; Harrington, K. C.; Robertson, A. W.; Watt, M. S.; New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Hastings, New Zealand, 17th Australasian weeds conference. New frontiers in New Zealand: together we can beat the weeds. Christchurch, New Zealand, 26-30 September, 2010, 2010, pp 372 Broom (Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link) is an invasive weed in many commercial radiata pine (Pinus radiata D.Don) plantations throughout New Zealand. As broom competes strongly with newly planted pine seedlings and has an abundant seed bank that persists long...
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