USING A DYNAMIC LANDSCAPE MODEL FOR PLANNING THE MANAGEMENT OF ALIEN PLANT INVASIONS

By Steven Higgins, D. Richardson, Richard M. Cowling. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Quantifying levels of biological invasion: towards the objective classification of invaded and invasible ecosystems (2011, background): “However, if an ecosystem is heavily invaded or has been transformed by a highly invasive species, it is probably more effective to allocate limited management resources to less invaded ecosystems rather than highly invaded ones (Higgins et al., 2000).”
Commercially Important Trees as Invasive Aliens – Towards Spatially Explicit Risk Assessment at a National Scale (2002, background): “Such information is useful for management at the scale of landscapes (e.g. for tree invasion in fynbos, van Wilgen et al. 1992; Higgins et al. 2000, 2001), but is not particularly helpful for planning long-term strategies at regional and national scales.”
GENE FLOW IN FOREST TREES: HOW FAR DO GENES REALLY TRAVEL? 1 (2004, background): “Models provide an extensible framework for integrating data from disparate demographic and genetic field studies with landscape-scale analyses of ecosystem dynamics (SORK et al. 1999; HIGGINS et al. 2000).”
Finding optimal control strategies for invasive species: a density‐structured model for Spartina alterniflora (2004, background): “The dynamics of spread of invasive species have been successfully captured in various population models (reviewed in Hastings 1996; Higgins & Richardson 1996; Shigesada & Kawasaki 1997) but these have been used surprisingly infrequently to find optimal control strategies (Higgins & Richardson 1996; ”
We can eliminate invasions or live with them. Successful management projects (2008, background): “, Fuller and Barbe 1985), several empirical experiences (see Mack and Lonsdale 2002), and two theoretical treatments (Moody and Mack 1988; Higgins et al. 2000).”
Dealing with Uncertainty in Spatially Explicit Population Models (2004, methodology): “Validation and exhaustive sensitivity analyses of SEPMs, however, have been rarely undertaken (but see Higgins et al. 2000; McCarthy et al. 2000; Rushton et al. 2000), mainly because of the computational effort involved, and because results can be difficult to interpret.”
Non-native plant invasions of United States National Parks (2009, background): “Many approaches have been taken to study and predict non-native plant invasions including smallscale experiments (Naeem et al. 2000; Kennedy et al. 2002), large scale observational studies (Stohlgren et al. 1999, 2003; Lonsdale 1999), and modeling exercises (Reichard and Hamilton 1997; Higgins et a”
Seed banks of invasive Australian Acacia species in South Africa: Role in invasiveness and options for management (2008, background): “Results from population modelling studies also support the strategy of clearing sparse stands of A. cyclops before dense stands (Higgins et al., 2000).”
Invasive alien plants in South Africa: how well do we understand the ecological impacts? (2004, background): “22,23,102,103 Such advances have, however, yet to be incorporated into policy and have thus had limited effect on management to date.”
Validation of a spatial simulation model of a spreading alien plant population (2001, background): “For example, we could determine the most cost-effective alien-clearing strategy and the potential impact of alien plants on fynbos ecosystems (Higgins et al. 1997a,b; Higgins, Richardson & Cowling 2000; see Wadsworth et al. 2000a, for a similar approach).”