Overview

Advice involves immediate 'rapid-response' actions to initiate containment along with preventative strategies, measures for control and monitoring requirements post-control. The manual responds to the GB Non-Native Species Strategy and deals with over 40 species which have been selected from plants listed in Schedule 9 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (as amended) for the UK; invasive alien species of EU concern (as per EU IAS Regulation 1143/2014); and other noteworthy species of the urban environment, for example butterfly-bush (buddleia). Each species account includes: a brief description on ecology and identification with corresponding photographs; a distribution map for the British and Irish Isles; immediate actions that can be taken once identified; pathways of spread; lifespan; seed-production age; seed longevity; growth rate; a 'schematic' of the life-cycle aimed at assisting the determination of schedules for survey and treatment; prevention and rapid-response measures; tables of control, management and herbicide treatment linked to decision-making flow diagrams; waste-disposal requirements; revegetation post-management; and continued monitoring. Key references to published data and links to appropriate websites are also included.

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Author:   Mark Fennell ,  Laura Jones ,  Max Wade ,  Trevor Renals
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Packard Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 29.70cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9781853411656

ISBN 10:   1853411655
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   20 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Trevor Renals (Environment Agency); introduction and how to use the manual; management and control of the following invasive, non-native weeds: American skunk-cabbage, broadleaf (various-leaved) watermilfoil, invasive bamboos, butterfly-bush (buddleia), Carolina fanwort, cotoneaster species, creepers (false, Virginia & Boston ivy), curly waterweed, false acacia, floating pennywort, garden lupin, giant rhubarb, Himalayan balsam, Himalayan knotweed, Hottentot fig, Japanese, giant & other hybrid knotweeds, Japanese rose (rugosa), Johnson grass (sorghum), kudzu, mile-a-minute weed (devil's tail), montbretia, New Zealand pygmyweed (Australian swamp-stonecrop), Nuttall's & Canadian waterweeds, parrot's-feather, parthenium weed, purple dewplant, rhododendron, salmonberry, shallon, Spanish bluebell, three-cornered & few-flowered garlics, tree groundsel, tree-of-heaven, variegated yellow archangel, water fern, water hyacinth, water primrose. Glossary of terms and acronyms; index of contributors.

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Max Wade is Technical Director (Ecology) at AECOM and a former Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. He was founding Chairman of the PCA's Invasive Weed Control Group, and is President of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management.

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