Browsing RESEARCH: Foxcroft, L by Subject "invasive plants"

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    • Alien species in South Africa's national parks 

      Spear, D.; McGeoch, M.A.; Foxcroft, L.C.; Bezuidenhout, H. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011)
      Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the major threats to biodiversity in protected areas, and pose a significant management challenge (e.g. Pyšek et al. 2002, Allen, Brown & Stohlgren 2009). One of the first steps ...

    • Hitting the right target: taxonomic challenges for, and of, plant invasions 

      Pysek, P.; Hulme, P.E.; Meyerson, L.A.; Smith, G.F.; Boatwright, J.S.; Crouch, N.R.; Figueiredo, E.; Foxcroft, L.C.; Jarosik, V.; Richardson, D.M.; Suda, J.; Wilson, J.R.U. (Oxford University Press, 2013-09-19)
      This paper explores how a lack of taxonomic expertise, and by implication a dearth of taxonomic products such as identification tools, has hindered progress in understanding and managing biological invasions. It also ...