Post-release monitoring in classical biological control of weeds: higher trophic levels modify competitive interactions between invasive macrophytes

Schaffner, Urs; Hill, Martin P; Dudley, Tom; D’Antonio, Carla

Title: Post-release monitoring in classical biological control of weeds: higher trophic levels modify competitive interactions between invasive macrophytes
Creator: Schaffner, Urs
Creator: Hill, Martin P
Creator: Dudley, Tom
Creator: D’Antonio, Carla
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150200
Identifier: vital:38949
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2020.02.008
Description: While various aspects of classical biological control (CBC) of weeds, including non-target risk assessment, have been continuously improved in the past few decades, post-release monitoring remains neglected and underfunded. Detailed assessments of the population, community and ecosystem outcomes of CBC introductions, including reasons for success/failure and absence or evidence of non-target effects are generally lacking or fragmentary. Here we review recent advances in understanding the demography of biological control agents released into a novel environment, their impact on the target weed and on non-target species, and the consequences for the resident plant and animal communities and ecosystem functioning, including the restoration of ecosystem services. We argue that post-release monitoring of CBC programs offers unique but largely underutilized opportunities to improve our understanding of CBC outcomes and to inform management and decision-makers on when and how CBC should be integrated with other management options to enhance ecosystem restoration.
Format: 8 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Current Opinion in Insect Science
Relation: Schaffner, U., Hill, M., Dudley, T. and D’Antonio, C., 2020. Post-release monitoring in classical biological control of weeds: assessing impact and testing pre-release hypotheses. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 38, pp.99-106
Relation: Current Opinion in Insect Science volume 38 number 99 106 April 2020 2214-5745
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