Knowledge and perceptions of invasive plant biocontrol in Europe versus the rest of the world

Marchante, Hélia; Marchante, Elizabete; Verbrugge, Laura; Lommen, S.T.E.; Shaw, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116896

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“…in France: Lesieur, 2021; Sforza, 2019) supported by public education and training programmes. A global survey has also taken place to understand differences in the attitudes in Europe and the rest of the world to more widespread application of CBC in the EU (Marchante et al, 2023). Better communication on the excellent track record of CBC against IAPs in safety and effectiveness (Hinz et al, 2019; Hinz et al, 2020; Suckling & Sforza, 2014), as well as the continuous improvements to the approach in a European context (Sun et al, 2022) may also help acceptance.…”

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Prioritising environmental invasive weeds of European concern for classical biological control: A reanalysis

Lesieur¹,

Sforza²,

Sheppard³

et al. 2023

Weed Research

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Invasive alien plant species (IAPs) are causing significant negative impacts on agricultural production, threatened native species and ecosystems, the services they provide and public health thereby affecting European biodiversity and its economy. IAPs invade all types of natural and managed habitat and their impacts, through increased numbers and area invaded, are growing exponentially. Current control options in Europe are largely limited to manual and chemical control, which is high cost, shortterm in effectiveness and with regards to chemical control declining in public acceptability. Globally, classical biological control (CBC) is widely and successfully used to manage many IAPs. CBC aims to redress the ecological imbalance caused by the IAPs, generally being released without their natural enemies. The steps are to select, risk assess potential specific natural enemy biocontrol agents of the IAP (from the IAP's native range) and follow regulatory approval prior to releasing them to ecologically suppress their abundance. CBC is not widely used in Europe. Only five active programmes exist. In this paper, we apply an existing framework to develop a ranked list of environmental IAPs named in the EU Regulation on Invasive Species for biocontrol. We used a scoring system based on existing knowledge on the IAPs impacts, the amount of effort needed to deliver a CBC programme targeting them and the feasibility and likelihood of success of such programmes. We identify 16 IAPs in Europe for which CBC has relatively high potential and discuss existing knowledge that can underpin any future investments in such activities against each of these IAPs. The top three species being Pontederia crassipes, Pistia startiotes and Acacia saligna. This research should support decision-making on the instigation of future CBC programmes against environmental IAPs in Europe. We set this analysis in the context of other operational and regulatory constraints on developing CBC programmes against environmental IAPs in Europe.

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Prioritising environmental invasive weeds of European concern for classical biological control: A reanalysis

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Sforza²,

Sheppard³

et al. 2023

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“…Biological control has been attempted against the species in the EPPO region. The biological control agent, Procecidochares utilis (Diptera: Tephritidae) was released in Madeira in 1962 to control A. adenophora (Marchante et al., 2023). However, it has a negligible degree of control on the island (Vieira, 2002).…”

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Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) King & Robinson

2023

EPPO Bulletin

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In Algeria, A. adenophora was considered naturalized as early as in the 1870s (Battandier & Trabut, 1878). In France, it has been cultivated in botanical gardens since the 19th century. It is mentioned in the Villa Thuret garden (Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Sauvagio, 1899), the Monte Carlo garden (Jeannel, 1890), the Montpellier botanical garden (L'Indépendant: journal du Midi, 1848) and the Grenoble botanical garden (Verlot, 1857). It was also probably cultivated in private gardens as it is mentioned in horticultural books with advice on cultivation and maintenance (e.g. Dupuis & Hérincq, 1884). Ageratina adenophora was detected in Corsica in 1952 in Lupino near Bastia. More recent records around 2020 confirmed this expansion trend, with several new locations covering the area between Monaco and Nice (Cap-d'Ail,

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Occurrence of herbivore arthropods on water hyacinth in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

Kassu,

Getu,

Muleta

2024

Biol Invasions

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Knowledge and perceptions of invasive plant biocontrol in Europe versus the rest of the world

Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Prioritising environmental invasive weeds of European concern for classical biological control: A reanalysis

Prioritising environmental invasive weeds of European concern for classical biological control: A reanalysis

Ageratina adenophora (Sprengel) King & Robinson

Occurrence of herbivore arthropods on water hyacinth in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia

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