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Book on weeds and invasive plants discusses how to manage them using ecological approaches
Date:10/1/2007

riety of exotic invasive plants and discuss methods and tools for managing them, Holt said. It is a hands-on reference for land managers and professionals in plant sciences, agronomy, weed science, and horticulture. Theres something in it for any student of agriculture, ecology, natural resources management, environmental management, or related fields.

Chapters of the book address a variety of topics such as:

  • the impact of weeds and invasive plants on ecosystems
  • how exotic plants enter new environments (both natural wildlands and managed lands such as agricultural fields), spread, and do harm
  • basic genetics and evolution of weeds and invasive plants and the role humans play in facilitating them
  • how populations of weeds and invasive plants reproduce, spread, and maintain themselves
  • how plants interact with each other in positive and negative ways
  • how weeds in agricultural and other managed lands and also invasive plants in natural wildlands (such as forests and deserts) can be prevented and managed.

The penultimate chapter provides a thorough overview of the development, properties, regulation, use, and fate of herbicides; the final chapter is a review of the most current and innovative approaches for managing weeds and invasive plants, and also describes and justifies the need to integrate consideration of human and cultural systems into land management practices.

The first edition of the book, published by Wiley in 1987, described principles of ecology and explained the relationships of weeds to agricultural development. The second edition, published by Wiley in 1997, dramatically expanded the subject matter by including chapters on weed demography, interference, methods to study weed/crop interactions, and the physiology of competition. It also included three chapters on weed control and for the first time introduced social and ethical concerns that can a
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Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
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University of California - Riverside
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