Adding Biofuels to the Invasive Species Fire?

By S. Raghu, R. C. Anderson, C. Daehler, A. Davis, R. Wiedenmann, Daniel Simberloff, R. N. Mack. Science, 2006

326 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Biomedical Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• The ecology and agronomy of Miscanthus sinensis, a species important to bioenergy crop development, in its native range in Japan: a review (2009, background): “Some endophytes contribute N to plants (Rosenblueth & Martinez-Romero, 2006).”
• Host range of Tetramesa romana Walker (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae), a potential biological control of giant reed, Arundo donax L. in North America (2009, background): “…has some potential economic value as a biofuel plant (Szabo et al., 1996), however the invasiveness of this species and the fact that there are better yielding non-invasive alternatives, will likely limit its use (Florida Native Plant Society, 2006; Raghu et al., 2006; Loder, 2007; Mack, 2008).”
• Plant invasion across space and time: factors affecting nonindigenous species success during four stages of invasion. (2007, background): “Many potential biofuel species possess similar traits to established NIPS, suggesting that they could become invasive (Raghu et al., 2006).”
• Costs of producing miscanthus and switchgrass for bioenergy in Illinois (2008, unknown): “[13] Raghu S, Anderson RC, Daehler CC, Davis AS, Wiedenmann RN, Simberloff D, et al.”
• Black, Grey and Watch Lists of alien species in the Czech Republic based on environmental impacts and management strategy (2016, background): “It has been suggested that the traits of an ideal biofuel species are the same as those favouring invasiveness (Raghu et al. 2006, Buddenhagen et al. 2009, Smith et al. 2015).”
• Assessing the Ecological Impacts of Bioenergy Projects (2008, background): “A second negative impact would arise should the introduced crop species prove invasive, especially likely in the cases of grasses including giant reed (Arundo donax) and, potentially, Miscanthus [50].”
• Biodiversity conservation in the era of biofuels: risks and opportunities (2011, background): “Understanding the potential for non-native biofuel crops to become invasive will also be crucial, and even native species may pose risks when introduced beyond their historical range (eg switchgrass in California; Raghu et al. 2006; Barney and DiTomaso 2008).”
• Nonnative Species and Bioenergy: Are We Cultivating the Next Invader? (2008, background): “Although this may be generally true, especially for agronomic and horticultural species, we argue that in the case of biofuel crops, the trend is actually the opposite: the direction of selection (breeding) is for enhanced “weedy” characters (Raghu et al. 2006).”