- Title
- West African arthropods hold promise as biological control agents for an invasive tree in the Pacific Islands
- Creator
- Paterson, Iain D, Paynter, Quentin, Neser, Stefan, Akpabey, Felix J, Compton, Stephen G, Orapa, W
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/407119
- Identifier
- vital:70338
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-639c91613"
- Description
- African tulip tree, Spathodea campanulata Beauv. (Bignoniaceae), is a large tree of secondary forests, forest edges and savannas that is indigenous to Central and West Africa (Bidgood 1994). It has been widely utilised as an ornamental plant due to its beautiful flowers, fast growth and relative ease of cultivation, as a shade tree in parks and coffee plantations, and as a living fencepost (Francis 1990). Naturalisation has often followed cultivation of the plant, which is now established outside of the native range in Africa (Hedberg et al. 2006), the Caribbean (Francis 1990; Labrada and Medina 2009) and many Pacific islands (Meyer 2004), including Hawaii, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga,Vanuatu and Tahiti (Lowe et al. 2000; Dovey et al. 2004; Labrada and Medina 2009). On some of these islands it has become a destructive weed, invading indigenous forests and having a severe impact on agricultural production (Labrada and Medina 2009; Larrue et al. 2014). This has resulted in African tulip tree being recognised as one of the 100 worst alien invasive species worldwide, along with only 30 other terrestrial plants (Lowe et al. 2000).
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (4 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Sabinet
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Entomology, Paterson, I.D., Paynter, Q., Neser, S., Akpabey, F.J., Orapa, W. and Compton, S.G., 2017. West African arthropods hold promise as biological control agents for an invasive tree in the Pacific Islands. African Entomology, 25(1), pp.244-247, African Entomology volume 25 number 1 p. 244 2017 1021-3589
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RU DST/NRF SARChI for Insects in Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystems
Compton, Stephen G (Prof)
Paterson, Iain D (Associate Professor)
SDG 17. Partnerships for the Goals
SDG 15. Life On Land
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
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