A proposal to use plant demographic data to assess potential weed biological control agents impacts on non-target plant populations

The influence of herbivory and weather on the vital rates of two closely related cactus species

(2017) Kristen E. Sauby et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Encompassing the relative non-target risks from agents and their alien plant targets in biological control assessments

(2016) Paul O. Downey et al.   BIOCONTROL

Secondary invasion: The bane of weed management

(2016) Dean E. Pearson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Prioritizing management actions for invasive populations using cost, efficacy, demography and expert opinion for 14 plant species world-wide

(2016) Natalie Z. Kerr et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Does plant apparency matter? Thirty years of data provide limited support but reveal clear patterns of the effects of plant chemistry on herbivores

(2016) Angela M. Smilanich et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Biocontrol insect impacts population growth of its target plant species but not an incidentally used nontarget

(2016) Haley A. Catton et al.   Ecosphere

The fourteen International Symposia on Biological Control of Weeds, 1969–2014: Delegates, demographics and inferences from the debate on non-target effects

(2015) V.C. Moran et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Relative performance on test and target plants in laboratory tests predicts the risk of non-target attack in the field for arthropod weed biocontrol agents

(2015) Quentin Paynter et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Nontarget herbivory by a weed biocontrol insect is limited to spillover, reducing the chance of population-level impacts

(2015) Haley A. Catton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Differential Host-Finding Abilities by a Weed Biocontrol Insect Create Within-Patch Spatial Refuges for Nontarget Plants

(2014) Haley A. Catton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

ThecompadrePlant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography

(2014) Roberto Salguero-Gómez et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Native insect herbivory limits population growth rate of a non-native thistle

(2014) James O. Eckberg et al.   OECOLOGIA

What Magnitude Are Observed Non-Target Impacts from Weed Biocontrol?

(2014) David Maxwell Suckling et al.   PLoS One

Successes We May Not Have Had: A Retrospective Analysis of Selected Weed Biological Control Agents in the United States

(2014) Hariet L. Hinz et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

Principles of Public Trust Thinking

(2014) Darragh Hare et al.   HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF WILDLIFE

Age, stage and senescence in plants

(2013) Hal Caswell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Field release of a prospective biological control agent of weeds, Ceratapion basicorne, to evaluate potential risk to a nontarget crop

(2012) M. Cristofaro et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Effects of Cactoblastis cactorum on the survival and growth of North American Opuntia

(2012) Heather Jezorek et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Evolving while invading: rapid adaptive evolution in juvenile development time for a biological control organism colonizing a high-elevation environment

(2012) Peter B. McEvoy et al.   Evolutionary Applications

How can ecologists help practitioners minimize non-target effects in weed biocontrol?

(2012) Simon V. Fowler et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The effectiveness of classical biological control of invasive plants

(2012) Gary D. Clewley et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Impacts of insect herbivores on rare plant populations

(2011) Justin Ancheta et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Incorporating parametric uncertainty into population viability analysis models

(2011) Conor P. McGowan et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

St. John’s wort beetles would not have been introduced to New Zealand now: A retrospective host range test of New Zealand’s most successful weed biocontrol agents

(2011) R. Groenteman et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Lessons learned from invasive plant control experiments: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2011) Karin M. Kettenring et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Impacts of the introduced biocontrol agent, Rhinocyllus conicus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), on the seed production and population dynamics of Cirsium ownbeyi (Asteraceae), a rare, native thistle

(2010) Michelle E. DePrenger-Levin et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Demography and dispersal: invasion speeds and sensitivity analysis in periodic and stochastic environments

(2010) Hal Caswell et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Occurrence ofTrichosirocalus horridus(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on NativeCirsium altissimumVersus ExoticC. vulgarein North American Tallgrass Prairie

(2009) Masaru Takahashi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Differences in Preference and Performance of the Water Lily Leaf Beetle,Galerucella nymphaeaePopulations on Native and Introduced Aquatic Plants

(2009) Jianqing Ding et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

(2009) D. J. Futuyma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The occurrence and potential relevance of post-release, nontarget attack by Mogulones cruciger, a biocontrol agent for Cynoglossum officinale in Canada

(2008) Jennifer Elizabeth Andreas et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Apparent competition can compromise the safety of highly specific biocontrol agents

(2008) Luisa G. Carvalheiro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Non-target impacts of Phytomyza vitalbae a biological control agent of the European weed Clematis vitalba in New Zealand

(2007) Quentin Paynter et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL