Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions

SECTION I. Human Perceptions.- 1. Defining Indigenous Species: An Introduction.- 2. Defining Weeds of Natural Areas.- 3. Potential Valuable Ecological Functions of Nonindigenous Plants.- SECTION II. Assessment of Ecological Interactions.- 4. Documenting Natural and Human-Caused Plant Invasions Using Paleoecological Methods.- 5. Community Response to Plant Invasion.- 6. Impacts of Invasive Plants on Community and Ecosystem Properties.- 7. Animal-Mediated Dispersal and Disturbance: Driving Forces Behind Alien Plant Naturalization.- 8. Outlook for Plant Invasions: Interactions with Other Agents of Global Change.- 9. Experimental Design for Plant Removal and Restoration.- 10. Response of a Forest Understory Community to Experimental Removal of an Invasive Nonindigenous Plant (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae).- SECTION III. Direct Management.- 11. Management of Plant Invasions: Implicating Ecological Succession.- 12. Methods for Management of Nonindigenous Aquatic P] ants.- 13. Biological Control of Weeds in the United States and Canada.- 14. Prioritizing Invasive Plants and Planning for Management.- SECTION IV. Regulation and Advocacy.- 15. Prevention of Invasive Plant Introductions on National and Local Levels.- 16. Exotic Pest Plant Councils: Cooperating to Assess and Control Invasive Nonindigenous Plant Species.- 17. Team Arundo: Interagency Cooperation to Control Giant Cane (Arundo donax).- 18. A Multiagency Containment Program for Miconia (Miconia calvescens), an Invasive Tree in Hawaiian Rain Forests.- Appendix: Selected Plant Species Interfering with Resource Management Goals in North American Natural Areas.- References.