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Posts tagged Weed risk assessment

Remember your roots (if you’re an invasive plant, that is)

Pfadenhauer, W. G., Nelson, M. F., Laginhas, B. B., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Remember your roots: Biogeographic properties of plants' native habitats can inform invasive plant risk assessments. Diversity and Distributions, 29(1): 4–18.

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Management efficacy, Invasive plants, Weed risk assessment, Predicting invasive species, Machine learning

We are family: close relatives of invasives species are more likely to be invasive themselves

Buonaiuto, D. M., Evans, A. E., Fertakos, M. E., Pfadenhauer, W., Salva, J., & Bradley, B. A. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments. Conservation Letters, e12979. PDF

Management Efficacy and PolicyNortheast RISCCNovember 19, 2024Invasiveness, Phylogeny, Policy, Weed risk assessment, Invasive Plant