Managing weeds is costly and, in some cases, almost impossible if the weed has become widespread.

Development of tools that can provide early warning of invasion are thus effective if they can mobilise resources against weeds before they become too widespread and expensive to control.

This project examines a variety of surveillance and monitoring schemes to assess their reliability and effectiveness for assessing the rates of change in weed distributions.

Key publications relating to this research:

Hulme PE (2007) Biological Invasions in Europe: Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts and Responses. In Biodiversity Under Threat (eds Hester R. & Harrison RM) pp. 56-80, Issues in Environmental Science and Technology, 2007, 25, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge

Lambdon PW, Lloret F & Hulme PE (2008) Do non-native species invasions lead to biotic homogenization at small-scales? Similarity and functional diversity of habitats compared for the alien and native components of Mediterranean floras.  Diversity & Distributions doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00490.x

Traveset A, Brundu B, Carta M, Mprezetou I, Lambdon P, Manca M, Medail F, Moragues E, Rodriguez-Perez J, Siamantziouras S, Suehs CM, Troumbis A, Vila M & Hulme PE (2008) Consistent performance of invasive plant species within and among islands of the Mediterranean basin.   Biological Invasions 10, 847-858

Truscott A-M, Palmer, SCF, Soulsby C & Hulme PE (2008) Assessing the vulnerability of riparian vegetation to invasion by Mimulus guttatus: relative importance of biotic and abiotic variables in determining species occurrence, abundance and performance.  Diversity & Distributions, 14, 412-421.

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