- Title
- Post-release monitoring in classical biological control of weeds: higher trophic levels modify competitive interactions between invasive macrophytes
- Creator
- Schaffner, Urs, Hill, Martin P, Dudley, Tom, D’Antonio, Carla
- 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, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Current Opinion in Insect Science, 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, Current Opinion in Insect Science volume 38 number 99 106 April 2020 2214-5745
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