[APWG] NEWS: Book on weeds and invasive plants discusses how to manage them using ecological approaches

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-10/uoc--bow100107.php

Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
iqbal at ucr.edu
951-827-6050
University of California - Riverside

Book on weeds and invasive plants discusses how to manage them using 
ecological approaches

Invasive species are a prime reason for loss of biodiversity, says UC 
Riverside's Jodie Holt, a co-author of the reference book

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- As people become more globally mobile, plants can 
inadvertently get transported with them, resulting in new plants appearing 
in places not used to hosting them. Such invasions of exotic species can 
occur rapidly, taking over new territories at the expense of native 
plants.

How weeds and invasive plants develop and interact in their new 
environment, and how people can manage and control them, are addressed in 
a newly revised book, Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship 
to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (Wiley-Interscience, 2007), 
a classic reference authored by Jodie S. Holt, a professor of plant 
physiology at the University of California, Riverside, and two other 
coauthors.

See the link above for the full press release.