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Weed or feed? New pasture plants intensify invasive species risk
Posted on November 4, 2014 by Jane Catford	
To meet increasing demands for livestock production, agribusinesses around the world are breeding new varieties of pasture plants. Unfortunately, many of the plant characteristics promoted for use in pasture – higher growth rates, greater resistance to disease, higher tolerance of environmental … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged agribusiness, alien plant invasion, Australia, biosecurity, Don Driscoll, Gamba grass, global, Invasive species, invasiveness traits, Jane Catford, pasture plants, PNAS, sustainable intensification of agriculture, weed risk	| Leave a comment
Project kick-off: propagule pressure, functional traits, resource availability and plant invasion
As mentioned in a previous post, I was lucky enough to be awarded one of the inaugural ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) late last year. I officially started my DECRA research in April, so I thought it was … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged alien plant invasion, Australia, Australian National University, Biodiversity, Brendan Wintle, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, Cindy Hauser, community assembly, David Tilman, field experiment, Invasive species, Mick McCarthy, Peter Vesk, University of Minnesota	| Leave a comment
Newsletter article: Causes, impacts and ways to manage exotic plant invasion along the River Murray
Dec 2011 – Condensing a rather large topic down to a single page, I discuss some of the processes that lead to high levels of invasion in riparian zones in this article. I also present information on why we should … Continue reading →
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged alien plant invasion, flooding, flow regime, Invasive species, Murray River, Riparian zone, river regulation	| Leave a comment
Nov 2011 – I’ve just been awarded a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Over the next three years (2012-2015), I will investigate the susceptibility of native vegetation edges to alien plant invasion using quantitative and … Continue reading →
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