Review paper: Can biocontrol agents stop weed dispersal?
List of papers
Buckley, Y.M., E.Brockerhoff, L Langer, N. Legard, H. North and M. Rees. 2005.
Slowing down a pine invasion despite uncertainty in demography and dispersal.
Journal of Applied Ecology 42: 1020–1030.
Bullock, J.M., R.F. Pywell and S.J. Coulson-Phillips. 2008. Managing plant population
spread: prediction and analysis using a simple model. Ecological Applications
18(4): 945–953.
Bullock, J.M., K. Shea, and O. Skarpass. 2006. Measuring plant dispersal: an
introduction to field methods and experimental design. Plant Ecology 186(2):
217-234.
Fagan W.F., M.A. Lewis, M.G. Neubert and P. van den Driessche. 2002. Invasion theory
and biological control. Ecology Letters 5: 148-157
Fagan W.F., M.A. Lewis, M.G. Neubert, C. Aumann, J. L. Apple and J.G. Bishop. 2005.
When Can Herbivores Slow or Reverse the Spread of an Invading Plant? A test
case from Mount St. Helens. American Naturalist 166: 669–685.
Jongejans,_E., O. Skarpaas, and K. Shea. 2008. Dispersal, demography and spatial
population models for conservation and control management. Perspectives in
Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9: 153–170.
Jongejans, E., O. Skarpaas, P.W. Tipping, K. Shea. 2007. Establishment and spread of
founding populations of an invasive thistle: the role of competition and seed
limitation. Biological Invasions 9(3): 317-325.
Kot, M., Lewis, M.A. and van den Driessche, P. 1996. Dispersal data and the spread of
invading organisms. Ecology, 77, 2027–2042.
Le Maitre, D.C., R.M. Krug, J.H. Hoffmann, A.J. Gordon, T.N. Mgidi. 2008. Hakea
sericea: Development of a model of the impacts of biological control on
population dynamics and rates of spread of an invasive species. Ecological
Modelling 212: 342-358.
Lewis, M. A., M. G. Neubert, H. Caswell, J. S. Clark, and K.Shea, Jongejans, E. 2006. A
guide to calculating discrete-time invasion rates from data. Pages 169–192 in M.
Cadotte, S. McMahon, and T. Fukami, editors. Conceptual ecology and invasions
biology: reciprocal approaches to nature. Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, The
Netherlands.
Moody, M.E. and Mack, R.N. 1988. Controlling the spread of plant invasions: the
importance of nascent foci. Journal of Applied Ecology, 25, 1009–1021.
Neubert, M.G. & Parker, I.M. 2004. Projecting rates of spread for invasive species. Risk
Analysis, 24, 817–831.
Rees, M. and Q. Paynter. 1997. Biological control of Scotch broom: modelling the
determinants of abundance and the potential impact of introduced insect
herbivores. Journal of Applied Ecology, 34, 1203–1221.
Rose, Karen E., S.M. Louda, and M. Rees. 2005. Demographic and evolutionary impacts
of native and invasive insect herbivores on Cirsium canescens. Ecology, 86(2):
453–465.
Shea, K. 2004. Models for improving the targeting and implementation of biological
control of weeds. Weed Technology 18: 1578-1581.
Skarpaas, O. and K. Shea. 2007. Dispersal patterns, dispersal mechanisms and invasion
wave speeds for invasive thistles. American Naturalist 140: 421–430.
Skarpaas, O., K. Shea, and J.M. 2005. Bullock. Optimizing dispersal study design by
Monte Carlo simulation. Journal of Applied Ecology 42(4): 731-739.
Taylor, C.M. and Hastings, A. 2004. Finding optimal control strategies for invasive
species: a density-structured model for Spartina alterniflora. Journal of Applied
Ecology, 41, 1049–1057.