FS 548 Biology of Invasive Plants

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FS 548 Biology of Invasive Plants - Readings

Syllabus

Roger Sheley Presentation

RAMAS EcoLab

Download RAMAS EcoLab 2.0 - Choose Run and the Installation program will begin for RAMAS EcoLab
Applied Population Ecology - Principles and Computer Exercises using RAMAS EcoLab 2.0

Week 1

Week 2

Richardson et al. 2000 - Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions
Hobbs and Humphries 1995 - An Integrated Approach to the Ecology and Management of Plant Invasions

Week 3

Rew et al. 2006 - Searching for a needle in a haystack: evaluating survey methods for non-indigenous plant species
Muyt 2001 - Managing Enviromental Weeds, Environmental Weed Controls
Krueger-Mangold et al. 2006 - Toward ecologically-based invasive plant management on rangeland
Rew and Pokorny 2006 - Inventory and Survey Methods for Nonindigenous Plant Species
Finnoff et al. - Risk and Nonidigenous Species Management

Week 4

Alpert et al. 2000 - Invasiveness, invasibility and the role of environmental stress in the spread of non-native plants

Week 5

Dekker 2003 - The foxtail (Setaria) species-group
Hobbs et al. 2006 - Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order
Silvertown and Lovett-Doust Chapter 5 - Population Dynamics
Silvertown and Lovett-Doust Chapter 7 - Metapopulations

Week 6

Shea and Kelly 1998 - Estimating Biocontrol Agent Impact with Matrix Models: Carduus Nutans in New Zealand
Parker 2000 - Invasion Dynamics of Cytisus Scoparius: A Matrix Model Approach

Week 7

Neubert and Caswell 2000 - Demography and Dispersal: calculation and sensitivity analysis of invasion speed for structured populations

Week 8

Hunt 1982 - Plant Growth Curves: The Functional Approach to Plant Growth Analysis

Term Project Examples

Cara Benfield - The bilogical and environmental factors facilitating the invasion of Taeniatherum caput-medusae
Cassie Hebel - Centaurea maculosa aka Spotted Knapweed
Cheryl Bright - Brachypodium sylvaticum (Hudson) Beauv. Slender False Brome, False Brome