Invasive plants

Invasive Plants: Ecological and Agricultural Aspects
Edited by Inderjit

Birkhäuser Verlag Basel • Boston • Berlin

Editor: Inderjit Professor, Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) School of Environmental Studies University of Delhi Delhi 110007 India

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Invasive plants : ecological and agricultural aspects /edited by Inderjit ; foreword by James A. Drake. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7137-1 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 3-7643-7137-4 (alk. paper) 1. Invasive plants. 2. Invasive plants--Ecology. 3. Invasive plants--Control. I. Inderjit, 1963 SB613.5.I56 2005 581.6’2--dc22 2005041178

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Invasive Species (S. D. County) When I was young, these hills were grey and sere; So few attractive bushes flourished here But now wild mustard, blooming in the spring, Provides a blaze of golden carpeting. While in this valley, where was once a gleam Of water, flowing in a wooden stream, A vast, extending area is filled With houses that we, new arrivals, build. Wherechapparal and streamlet once had been, Invasive species dominate the scene.

Source: Mecking S, van Dunne F (2003) Blue-green; a collection of poems by Ralph Lewin. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Reproduced with permission from Professor Ralph Lewin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.

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Contents
List of contributorsPreface ...................................... IX XI

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Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XIII From the editor ......................................... XV

About the symposium

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Robert I. Colautti Insearch of an operational lexicon for biological invasions

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Section 1: Ecological aspects Inderjit, Marc W. Cadotte and Robert I. Colautti The ecology of biological invasions: past, present and future . . . . . . . Matthew C. Fitzpatrick and Jake F. Weltzin Ecological niche models and the geography of biological invasions: a review and a novel application . . . . . . . . . . ....