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Ecological studies to assess the efficacy of biological control on populations of alligator weed and lippia
Authors:Shon Schooler  Céline Clech-Goods  Mic Julien
Institution:CSIRO Entomology and Cooperative Research Centre for Australian Weed Management, 120 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, Qld 4068, Australia.
Abstract:Abstract  The risk of non-target effects from biological control agents can be reduced if we can better identify effective agents prior to release. Introducing only those agents with high potential for effective control will reduce the number of agents released and reduce the probability of both direct and indirect non-target impacts. Identifying effective agents requires understanding the roles that resources, disturbances and herbivory play in regulating plant populations under natural field conditions. Here we propose a series of experiments that will contrast the mechanisms of population regulation of two invasive wetland plants, alligator weed ( Alternanthera philoxeroides ) and lippia ( Phyla canescens ), with native congener species, Alternanthera denticulata and Phyla nodiflora . We hypothesise that the native plants will have greater growth rates when nutrients are low and herbivores are present, whereas the introduced plants will exhibit greater growth rates when nutrients are high and herbivores are absent.
Keywords:aquatic weeds  Condamine couch  predicting biological control effect
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