Invasive Alien Species Observations and Issues from Around the World

Invasive Alien Species: Observations and Issues from Around the World

Volume 1: Issues and Invasions in Africa

Invasive alien species are spreading into new ecosystems each year. The impacts caused by these invaders can be swift and devastating. The topic of invasive alien species is large, complex, and globally significant at various scales, exacerbated by the globalization of world economies and increased trade and commerce that has overcome natural barriers to species movement. Invasive alien species threaten global food supplies, water quality and availability, and energy production and delivery. With the added risks associated with global climate change, the global homogenization of plants, animals, and microbes is a major factor in the decline in ecosystem health and ecosystem services worldwide. To counter this trend, there is a critical need to unify governments, cultures, and programs to improve cross-boundary coordination to effectively address the wide range of invasive alien species threats to the environment, economies, and to plant and animal health; particularly human health.

This 4-volume work is the first to compile a set of useful material for key topics, to provide a better understanding of the overall global threat of invasive alien species and the diverse array of problems faced around the world, and assemble material that includes potential replicable solutions to overcome these threats. The books also highlight the threat posed by invasive alien species in terms of a global ‘call to action’. Since invasive species know no boundaries, it is our hope that by compiling material from different scientific and social perspectives around the world, and sharing knowledge and examples of a diverse array of associated topics, we can advance global awareness and improve unified national responses to the threat posed by invasive alien species.

Thammineni Pullaiah is Professor of Botany (Retired), Department of Botany, Sri Krishnadevaraya University, India.  

Michael Ielmini is National Invasive Species Program Manager in the United States Department of Agriculture (Forest Service), Washington D.C., USA 

Volume I

List of Contributors

1. Introduction? title? Mike Ielmini

2. Reproductive traits that foster the invasion of four alien plant species in Botswana - Demel Teketay, Thabo Mafote, Kamogelo K. Puodipe, Pauline B. Mompati, Neo Nkoborwane, Thembinkosi Mathowa and Witness Mojeremane

3. Status, Trends and Scenarios on Invasives Alien Species in Gabon – Jean Bruno Mikissa, Aurelie Flore Koumba Pambo, Emmanuel Bayani Ngoyi, Kath Jeffery, Lee White, Katharine Abernethy

4. Invasive Alien Species (IAS) of Ghana - Michael Kwabena Osei, Kofi Frimpong-Anin, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Benedicta Nsiah Frimpong, Joseph Adomako

5. Invasive Alien Species in Libya - Mohammed H. Mahklouf and  Esmail A. Shakman

6. Elements for reflection on primary invasive alien species (IAS) in Morocco

Nature and actual and potential impacts - Mohamed Menioui

7. Invasive Alien Species of Sierra Leone - Prince E. Norman, Jonathan Johnny, Sheku K. Moiforay, Yvonne S.G.E. Norman

8. Alien Invasive Species in Tanzania - John K. Bukombe, Ally K. Nkwabi, Lazaro J. Mangewa, Emmanuel A. Sweke, Pius Y. Kavana, Steven D. Liseki and Hamza H. Kija

9. Invasive Alien Species in Togo (West Africa) - Kouami Kokou, Komlan Mawuli Afiademanyo, Lakpo Koku Agboyi

10. Invasive Alien Species in Zambia - Stanford Mudenda Siachoono, Stephen Syampungani, and Jhonnah Mundike

11. Invasive Alien Species in Zimbabwe (Southern Africa) – A review - Claid Mujaju, Nhamo Mudada, Godfrey Pasurai Chikwenhere

Volume II

List of Contributors

1. Invasive alien species of Bangladesh - Sharif A. Mukul, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Mohammad Belal Uddin

2. An annotated inventory of invasive alien flora of India -Anzar A. Khuroo, Rameez Ahmad, Maroof Hamid, Zubair, A. Rather, Akhtar H. Malik, Irfan Rashid

3. Bio-invasion of aquatic invasive species in India - Ramakrishna

4. Invasive alien plant species management in Indonesia - Titiek Setyawati, Sunardi, Sukisman Tjitrosoedirdjo

5. Invasive alien species in Malaysia - Faridah-Hanum Ibrahim and Abdul Latiff

6. Invasions of Alien Plant Species in Nepal: Patterns and Process - Bharat Babu Shrestha and Krishna Kumar Shrestha

7. Status and Management of Invasive Alien Species (IAS) in Vietnam - Mai Dinh Yen

8. Parthenium hysterophorus in global perspectives, with special reference to Sri Lanka - A.H. Magdon Jayasuriya

9. Biosecurity Plan for Invasive Ants in the Pacific - Casper Vanderwoude, Souad Boudjelas, Monica Gruber, Benjamin Hoffmann,  David Oi, Sanford Porter

Index

Volume III

List of Contributors

1. Invasive alien species in Scandinavia - Kjetil Bevanger

2. Invasive Alien Species in the Balkan Peninsula - Biljana Panjković, Milica Rat, Sara Mihajlović, Laszlo Galambos, Alen Kiš, Slobodan Puzović , Bojana Nada�din, Jelena Šeat, Filip Vukajlović, Ivan Tot and Marko Đapić

3. Invasive Alien Species of Georgia - Guram Aleksidze, Givi Japaridze, Giorgi Kavtaradze, Shalva Barjadze

4. Invasive Alien Species of Greece - E. Korakaki, A.  Legakis, S. Katsanevakis, P. Koulelis, E. Avramidou, N. Soulioti, and P.V. Petrakis

5. Invasive Aliens in Italy: enumeration, history, biology and their impact - Gianniantonio Domina

6. Invasive alien plant species in global perspectives with special references to Bosnia and Herzegovina - Barudanović, S., Zečić, E., Macanović, A., Duraković, B., Mašić, E.

7. Status and Management of Invasive Alien Species in Switzerland - Lea Amacher, Gabriella Silvestri and Gian-Reto Walther

9. Eucalyptus in south Europe: Searching for the promised land - Introduction and dissemination of eucalyptus in southwestern Europe - Fco. Javier Silva-Pando

8. Invasive Alien Species of Malta - Alan Deidum

Index

Volume IV

List of Contributors

1. The Worst Invasive Species to Egypt -  Wafaa M. Amer

2. Invasive Alien Species of Iran - Mohammad Mehdi Dehshiri

3. Invasive Alien species in Iraq - Saman A. Ahmad, Nariman S. Ahmad and Sarbagh Salih

4. Invasive Alien Species of Oman - Annette Patzelt and Darach A. Lupton

5. Impact assessment and management of invasive species in plant diversity centers and agriculture fields of Saudi Arabia - Ahmed H Alfarhan, Jacob Thomas and R. Rajakrishnan

Index

Volume V

List of Contributors

1. Advances in the knowledge and study of Invasive Alien Species in Bolivia - Wendy L. Tejeda, Adriana Rico Cernohorska, Stephan G. Beck, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Robert B. Wallace, Guido Miranda-Chumacero, Luis F. Aguirre, María del Pilar Fernández Murillo

2. Distribution of invasive alien species in Brazilian ecoregions and protected areas - Michele de Sá Dechoum, Rafael Barbizan Sühs, Silvia de Melo Futada, Sílvia Renate Ziller

3. Botanical Gardens and the Global Challenge of Invasive Species - David Allan Galbraith, Nadia Cavallin

4. Invasive Plants of Costa Rica: current status and research opportunities - Gerardo Avalos, Eduardo Chacón-Madrigal, Luis Guillermo Artavia-Rodríguez

5. Invasive Alien Species in Mexico - Patricia Koleff, Roberto Mendoza, Jordan Golubov, Ana Isabel González-Martínez, Yolanda Barrios-Caballero, Silvia De Jesús De Jesús, Zenia Patricia Ruiz-Utrilla, Federico Méndez-Sánchez, Mariam Latofski-Robles, María del Mar Garciadiego-San Juan, Ana Esperanza Marichal-González

6. Invasive species in Mexican continental aquatic ecosystems  - Roberto Mendoza Alfaro, Sergio Luna, Carlos Aguilera

7. Invasive species in Mexican marine ecosystems - Jesús Ángel de León-González,  José Rolando Bastida-Zavala, Roberto Mendoza-Alfaro and Sergio Luna

8. Invasion potential of Mexican terrestrial ecosystems - Julieta Salomé Díaz, Jordan  Golubov, Sara I. Sifuentes, Cristina Ramírez, María del Carmen Mandujano

9. The implementation of the Mexican Strategy on Invasive Species: how far have we come? - Georgia Born-Schmidt, Jordi Parpal Servole, Viviana Reyes-Gómez, Eduardo Rendón Hernández, Erika Alarcón Chavira, Sayra Rosio Espindola Barrientos

10. Invasive Plant Management and Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation: A Review and Status Report - Michael R. Ielmini, Todd E. Hopkins, Kenneth E. Mayer, Kim Goodwin, Chad Boyd,  Brian Mealor, Mike Pellant, and Tom Christiansen

11. Invasive alien biota of Venezuela - José Ramón Grande Allende

12. Invasion of domestic dog (Canis familiaris L.) and its effect on wildlife in temperate forests from La Malinche National Park (LMNP), in Central Mexico - Arturo Estrada Torres and Iván R. Bravo

13. Biosecurity in a Global Invasion Hotspot: Hawaii as a Model for Interagency Biosecurity Planning - Chelsea Arnott, Josh Atwood, Randal Bartlett, Kevin Hoffman, Leyla Kaufman, Julie Kuo, Michael Melzer, Rachel Neville, Teya Penniman, David Rodriguez, Lincoln Wells

14. Evaluating Protection Strategies for an Invasive Plant Species: Miconia calvescens - David Lewis, Christopher A. Wada, Kimberly M. Burnett, James Leary, and Brooke Mahnken

15. Weed Wrangle®, a functional model for teaching the negative impacts of

     non-native invasive species - Elizabeth Lamar, Cayce McAlister, Steve Manning

 16. The life cycle of invasive alien species occurrence data: mapping, sharing, and re-use -  Rebekah D. Wallace, Charles T. Bargeron, Joseph H. LaForest, Rachel L. Carroll

17. Citizen Scientists’ Role in Invasive Alien Species Mapping and Management - Rebekah D. Wallace, Charles T. Bargeron, Joseph H. LaForest, Rachel L. Carroll

18. Effective collaboration to prevent and manage invasive pests: lessons learned from the Pacific Northwest (United States) - R. Jalene Littlejohn and J. Michelle Delepine

19. Chemical War between Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta) and Rasberry Crazy Ants (Nylanderia fulva) - Shiyou Li, Wei Yuan, Ping Wang, Zushang Su, David L. Kulhavy, Fuqiang Zhao,  and Steven H. Bullard

Index

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