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Title Invasive alien plants : impacts on development and options for management / edited by Carol A. Ellison, K.V. Sankaran, and Sean T. Murphy.

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : CABI, [2017]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2021.

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Edition [Enhanced Credo edition]
Description 1 online resource (19 entries) : 60 images ; digital files.
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Series CABI invasives series ; 8
CABI invasive series ; 8.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Contributors -- Foreword / Fang-Hao Wan -- Preface / Carol A. Ellison, K.V. Sankaran and Sean T. Murphy -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Invasive alien plants as a constraint to development in tropical Asia: is there a crisis in the making? / Sean T. Murphy -- 2. Profile of an invasive plant: Mikania micrantha / Carol A. Ellison and K.V. Sankaran -- 3. Social and economic implications of Mikania micrantha in the Kerala Western Ghats / V. Anitha, K.V. Santheep and Jyotsna Krishnakumar -- 4. Impacts and management options for Mikania micrantha in plantations / K.V. Sankaran, Soekisman Tjitrosemito and Soetikno S. Sastroutomo -- 5. Mikania micrantha: its status and impact on people and wildlife in Nepal / Hem Sagar Baral and Bhaskar Adhikari -- 6. Impact and management of invasive alien plants in Pacific island communities / Warea Orapa -- 7. Understanding the impact of invasive Mikania micrantha in shifting agriculture and its management through traditional ecological knowledge / P.S. Ramakrishnan -- 8. Prevention and related measures for invasive alien plants in India: policy framework and other initiatives / Ravi Khetarpal, Kavita Gupta, Usha Dev and Kavya Dashora -- 9. Control options for invasive alien plants in agroforestry in the Asia-Pacific region / K.V. Sankaran -- 10. Classical biological control of Mikania micrantha: the sustainable solution / Carol A. Ellison and Matthew J.W. Cock --
11. Policy frameworks for the implementation of a classical biological control strategy: the Chinese experience / Jianqing Ding -- 12. Policy frameworks for the implementation of a classical biological control strategy: the Indian experience / R.J. Rabindra, P. Sreerama Kumar and Abraham Verghese.
Access Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Summary This book, for the first time, brings together a wide range of invasive plant specialists from the Asia-Pacific region to share their experience in addressing the problem and delivering solutions.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Note Description based on title page of print version.
Subject Invasive plants -- Biological control -- Case studies.
Introduced organisms -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ellison, Carol A., editor.
Sankaran, K. V., editor.
Murphy, Sean T., editor.
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
Other Form: Print version: 1780646275 9781780646275 (DLC) 2017024619 xii, 232 pages : illustrations
ISBN 9781787857834 electronic version
9781780646275 hbk. ; alk. paper)
9781786391353 ePDF
178639135X ePDF
9781786391346 ePub
1786391341 ePub

 
    
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