Invasive plant ecology in natural and agricultural systems /

• Main Authors: Booth, Barbara D. 1961- (Author), Murphy, Stephen D., (Author), Swanton, Clarence J., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Series: Modular texts.
• Subjects: Invasive plants > Ecology.; Weeds > Ecology.; Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Weeds and Noxious Plants.; Pathogen, Pest, Parasite and Weed Management (General); Plant Ecology.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Genetic analysis.; Introduced species.; Invasions.; Invasive species.; Plant competition.; Plant ecology.; Weed control.; Weeds.
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This book contains 14 chapters describing how and why plant invasions occur and explains the ecological principles that are important in understanding the potential for a species to become invasive. The ecology of invasive plants is presented and the use of this knowledge to facilitate management is...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to invasion ecology
• The distribution and abundance of populations
• The structure and dynamics of populations
• Sexual reproduction
• Asexual reproduction
• From seed to seedling
• Growing up, getting old and dying
• Competition
• Herbivory, parasitism and mutualism
• Basic community concepts and diversity
• Community dynamics: succession and assembly
• Landscape scales and invasive species
• Molecular ecology: applications for invasive plants
• Plant invasions: a synthesis.