Climate variability may enhance the establishment of pests into areas which had been previously unfavourable for survival and establishment because of unsuitable climatic conditions. Within the wider Caribbean geographic area, there have been several introductions of invasive pest species over the...

Both governments and industry have highlighted the need to accurately identify and prioritise the positive and negative impacts of plants that are both weedy and commercially valuable. The introduction and subsequent naturalisation of such species results in conflict between members of the...

Invasive alien plants impact negatively on agriculture, forestry, natural ecosystems, human health, and biodiversity. These global threats also apply to South Africa, which basically is a water-stressed country that cannot afford wastage of water by any means, least of all through alien invasive...

The paper reviews the existing situation on risk assessment processes carried out globally to regulate introduction, early detections and management strategies for IAS globally and in the Sri Lankan context, and provides results of important activities carried out to develop a post-entry risk...

This paper briefly discusses the introduction of Prosopis species into Africa from their native America over the past 200 years. Although some are useful for fuel, fodder or erosion control, others have become invasive weeds. The first detailed study on the impacts (both positive and negative) of ...