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Online Materials
CIPM Publications and Products - Educational aids, Extension publications, and more.
1,200 Weeds of North America. Interactive weed identification CD available from XID Services, Inc.
Great Basin Invasive Weeds Website. This website was developed at Utah State University primarily for students and teachers in grades 7-12; however, it can be used by other audiences, including land managers and the general public.
Invasive Plant Management: CIPM Online Textbook. Covers topics ranging from the ecological processes involved in plant invasion to monitoring weed populations.
Invasive Species Citizen Science Program. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum trains volunteers as "citizen scientists" to identify and track invaders. This volunteer program contributes invasive species data to a national database.
Managing Invasive Plants: Concepts, Principles, & Practices. Developed by CIPM with the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System, this learning website provides an overview that is valuable to all natural resource professionals.
Radcliffe's IPM World Textbook. The University of Minnesota's electronic textbook of Integrated Pest Management with contributed chapters, continually updated. Site includes IPM and biocontrol links.
The National Invasive Species Information Center is the gateway to invasive species information covering Federal, State, local, and international sources, and the Web site for the National Invasive Species Council, which coordinates Federal responses to invasive species.
The National Biological Information Infrastructure is a great source for biological information about invasive species, biodiversity, and much more.
Volunteers and Invasive Plants: Learning and Lending a Hand. Developed by CIPM with the US Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge System, this learning website provides a wealth of information and resources for volunteers and the public.
Further Reading
Books and Journals
Biological Control of Invasive Plants in the United States. Covers ecology, safety testing, nontarget impacts, and the processes of identifying, introducing, distributing, and monitoring biological control agents. Describes 39 target plants and 94 agents, including their origin, biology, habitat, impacts, and distribution.
Biological Invasions. A journal publishing research papers on the patterns and processes of biological invasions in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.
California Invasive Plant Council. Includes a variety of resources from handbooks on invasive plant management to CDs on how to ID grasses and grass-like weeds.
Control of Invasive Species. Transportation Research Board: National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP). Covers efforts of state departments of transportation to control invasive species, successful practices and lessons learned, Integrated (Roadside) Vegetation Management, along with physical, chemical, biological, and cultural control mechanisms.
Ecology of Weeds and Invasive Plants: Relationship to Agriculture and Natural Resource Management, 3rd Edition. Radosevich, Holt, and Ghersa, August 2007. The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants, revised and updated.
Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest. University of Washington Press, 2006 (P. D. Boersma, S. H. Reichard, A. N. Van Buren, eds.), paperback, $29.95. Describes 108 invasive species of fish, plants, invertebrates, mammals, and birds, with photos, maps, life history, impacts, control methods, and more.
Weeds of the West. A full-color, easy-to-use guide with over 900 color photographs showing the early growth stages, mature plants and features for positive identification of each weed discussed. Includes descriptions, habitats and characteristics of important weed species in the Western United States. Written by seven Extension Specialists and published by the Western Society of Weed Science. Widely available.
Publishers and Booksellers
American Botanist Booksellers specializes in out-of-print books on agriculture, horticulture, olericulture (vegetable growing) and their history. Search on "weeds" for an interesting variety of publications, including out-of-print extension publications.
Apollo Books specializes in entomology, but includes field guides and natural history books on many topic froms publishers worldwide.
CRC Press, publishers on scientific and technical topics, including environmental science.
CSIRO Publishing Australian publisher of books, journals, multimedia on natural and biological sciences, including pest and weed control.
Flora & Fauna Books is a Seattle bookstore and online service with new, hard-to-find, out-of-print and rare books on the life sciences, including gardening, botany, ornithology, mammals, insects, herpetology and more. A keyword search on "weeds" or "invasive" yields many interesting titles.
Island Press publishes approximately 40 new titles per year on topics ranging from biodiversity and land use to forest management, agriculture, marine science, climate change, and energy. A few titles of interest are Alien Species and Evolution, Nature out of Place, and Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens
Sinauer Associates, Inc., publishers of college-level textbooks in biology, psychology, and neuroscience.
Timber Press is a Portland, Oregon, publisher of books about gardening, horticulture, botany, natural history, and the Pacific Northwest. Search on "native plants" for many books on gardening with natives.
University of Nebraska Press publishes North American Wildland Plants: A Field Guide, covering 200 of the most important wildland plants of North America and designed for a general audience as well as natural resource professionals.
Weed Science Society of America books:
Selected reading on ecology and weed management
Booth, B. D., S. D. Murphy, and C. J. Swanton. 2003. Weed ecology in natural and agricultural systems. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK.
Explains ecological principles essential to understanding how weeds function in the environment. Emphasizes why weed management strategies within an IWM approach should be based on ecological knowledge. For readers with an understanding of basic biology.
Luken, J. O., and J. W. Thieret. 1997. Assessment and management of plant invasions. Springer-Verlag, New York.
Places the issue of nonindigenous plant invasion in a broader ecological context that includes human activity in managing natural resources, designing regulations, and dispersing organisms. Discusses pre-invasion ecological interactions as well as post-invasion management interactions.
McPherson, G. R., and S. DeStefano. 2003. Applied ecology and natural resource management. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. Provides practical guidelines for integrating applied ecology with natural resource management. Focuses on plant ecology as a foundation for management; describes how concepts and approaches used by ecologists to study communities and ecosystems can be applied to management.
Radosevich, S., J. Holt, and C. Ghersa. 1997. Weed ecology: Implications for management, 2nd ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
Focuses on interactive features of weeds, especially as they occur in agriculture, forest, and rangeland situations. By considering weeds foremost as plants and by relying on the concepts of plant ecology, the authors hope to provide a better understanding of weeds that will lead to better crop and weed management.
Sheley, R. L., T. J. Svejcar, and B. D. Maxwell. 1996. A theoretical framework for developing successional weed management strategies on rangeland. Weed Technology 10: 766-773.
Provides the mechanistic framework necessary for developing successional weed management systems that shift plant communities to a desired state.
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