Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Defining Indigenous Species: An Introduction....Pages 7-17
Defining Weeds of Natural Areas....Pages 18-25
Potential Valuable Ecological Functions of Nonindigenous Plants....Pages 26-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Documenting Natural and Human-Caused Plant Invasions Using Paleoecological Methods....Pages 37-55
Community Response to Plant Invasion....Pages 56-68
Impacts of Invasive Plants on Community and Ecosystem Properties....Pages 69-86
Animal-Mediated Dispersal and Disturbance: Driving Forces Behind Alien Plant Naturalization....Pages 87-94
Outlook for Plant Invasions: Interactions with Other Agents of Global Change....Pages 95-103
Experimental Design for Plant Removal and Restoration....Pages 104-116
Response of a Forest Understory Community to Experimental Removal of an Invasive Nonindigenous Plant (Alliaria petiolata Brassicaceae)....Pages 117-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Management of Plant Invasions: Implicating Ecological Succession....Pages 133-144
Methods for Management of Nonindigenous Aquatic Plants....Pages 145-171
Biological Control of Weeds in the United States and Canada....Pages 172-194
Prioritizing Invasive Plants and Planning for Management....Pages 195-212
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Prevention of Invasive Plant Introductions on National and Local Levels....Pages 215-227
Exotic Pest Plant Councils: Cooperating to Assess and Control Invasive Nonindigenous Plant Species....Pages 228-243
Team Arundo: Interagency Cooperation to Control Giant Cane ( Arundo donax )....Pages 244-248
A Multiagency Containment Program for Miconia (Miconia calvescens) an Invasive Tree in Hawaiian Rain Forests....Pages 249-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-324