Weed Risk Assessment

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		Edited by: RH Groves   CSIRO Plant Industry FD Panetta   JG Virtue   Illustrations 256 pages Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING 2001

Paperback - ISBN: 064306561X - AU $ 89.95

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Description
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, loss 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 synthesises 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 weeds of national significance. Its 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 invasions ecologists, botanists, quarantine 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.

Publication of Weed Risk Assessment was made possible through funding from ACIAR.

Reviews
". . . an essential read for all those involved, either directly or indirectly, in plant trade, especially quarantine policy makers . . ."
PEST Biocontrol News & Information vol. 23 no. 2, June 2002

“This book does a remarkable job in blending theory with practice.” Edward Valauskas, Manager, Library and Plant Information Office, Chicago Botanic Garden (Current Books on Gardening and Botany v.3 no.5 2001)

“Application of weed risk assessment approaches presented have the potential to reduce the negative impact of weeds.”
IPMnet (www.IPMnet.org) 1 October 2001

“This book should be read by the growing band of people interested and involved in plant biosecurity at national or local level, and by ecologists, botanists and community groups who often have to deal with weeds once they have become problems.
Ian Popay (New Zealand Plant Protection Newsletter 2001)

“… the book presents a useful overview of the issues surrounding how we might go about assessing risks relating to potential and current weed species.”
Richard Hobbs, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University (Austral Ecology v.27, 2002)

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