Biological control in the management of invasive alien plants in South Africa, and the role of the Working for Water programme

By H. Zimmermann, V. C. Moran, J. Hoffmann. 2004

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The clearing of invasive alien plants in South Africa: a preliminary assessment of costs and progress (2004, background): “Invaders cost South Africans tens of billions of rand annually in lost agricultural productivity and resources spent on weed control.(4) An assessment of the economic impact of black wattle (Acacia mearnsii) gave a net present cost of $1.”
Species‐based risk assessments for biological invasions: advances and challenges (2013, background): “Biological control agents are assessed in much more detail than other intentionally introduced species (e.g. Zimmermann et al. 2004).”
Seed banks of invasive Australian Acacia species in South Africa: Role in invasiveness and options for management (2008, background): “Classical biological control (the introduction of specialist alien enemies to damage/destroy buds, flower and young pods) has effectively reduced the seed production of many Australian acacias in South Africa (Zimmermann et al., 2004).”
An assessment of the effectiveness of a large, national-scale invasive alien plant control strategy in South Africa (2012, unknown): “This has been supplemented by (1) the development of biological control options that target selected priority alien plant species (Zimmermann et al., 2004; Moran et al., 2005); (2) the promulgation of legislation that requires landowners to deal with the problem (van Wilgen et al., 2011a); and (3)…”
Benefits of Classical Biological Control for Managing Invasive Plants (2005, background): “For example, of 25 such programs initiated in South Africa, 60 percent were successful in controlling their target weeds; in several of these cases, the benefits may have been underestimated because weed spread was halted before infestations reached economically significant levels (Olckers, 2004).”
Biological control of invasive alien plants in South Africa: necessity, circumspection, and success (2005, background): “The southern tip of Africa became a focal point f r the establishment of alien plants from all over the world, especially from Australia and the Americas (Zimmermann et al. 2004).”
Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability (2011, background): “Another example is in South Africa, where tree plantations of nonnative water-hungry species are being removed to increase groundwater recharge (25).”
A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias (2011, background): “…an obligation to prevent spread; the combination of control operations with employment creation among the rural poor (Van Wilgen et al., 2011b); and increasing the funding for finding biological control options for invasive acacias, including those with commercial value (Zimmermann et al., 2004).”
An economic assessment of the contribution of biological control to the management of invasive alien plants and to the protection of ecosystem services in South Africa (2010, background): “camara itself, Baars and Neser 1999) but overall has been rated as substantial (Zimmermann et al. 2004), so that the need for additional control measures has been significantly reduced.”
A Catalogue of the Insects, Mites and Pathogens that have been used or Rejected, or are Under Consideration, for the Biological Control of Invasive Alien Plants in South Africa (2011, background): “…1960s, and against Hypericum perforatum L. (Clusiaceae), also in the 1960s, and all but one of these programmes were reliant on the use of agents that had already been tested and proved to be effective elsewhere and were provided to South Africa by Australian scientists (Zimmermann et al. 2004b).”