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BIOFUELS

• “Biofuels and Invasives: Managing the Invasive Risk of Biofuel Production,” proceedings of a 2009 international workshop convened in Nairobi, Kenya. 

• Buddenhangen, C.E., C. Chimera, & P. Clifford. (2009). “Assessing Biofuel Crop Invasiveness: A Case Study.” PLoS ONE 4(4): e5261.

• “Biofuels and Invasive Plant Species,”  a 2007 white paper authored by J.M. DiTomaso, J. Holt, and N. Jackson and published by the Weed Science Society of America.

• “Adding Biofuels to the Invasive Species Fire?” This 2006 article in Science by S. Raghu, et al, was one of the first to raise questions about potentially invasive biofuel crops.

Climate change

• “As Climate Warms, Species May Need to Migrate or Perish,” a report by New York Times writer Carl Zimmer and published online (April 2009) by Yale Environment 360.

• “Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making,” a 2009 synthesis compiled by several federal agencies and led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

•  “Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species,” a 2008 EPA report authored by the Environmental Law Institute (337 pgs, free download)

• Pyke, Christopher R., et al. 2008. Current Practices and Future Opportunities for Policy on Climate Change and Invasive Species. Conservation Biology 22(3): 585-592.

• Seastedt, T.R., R.J. Hobbs, and K.N. Suding. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, December 2008. The authors suggest that conservation strategies must shift with global environmental change.

International

• International Day for Biological Diversity (May 2009) focuses on Invasive Alien Species < > - sponsored by the Convention on Biological Diversity

• “The Great Reshuffling: Human Dimensions of Invasive Alien Species,” a 2001 multi-author publication by the IUCN World Conservation Union – free download

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