Recommend: Alien Plant Invasions in Native Ecosystems of Hawai'i: Management and Research / edited by Charles P. Stone, Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison; ISBN 0-8248-1474-6; SB612.H3A56 1993; distributed by University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 (University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit, 3190 Maile Way, Honolulu Hawai'i) -- 44 papers from a symposium organized by the National Park Service and the Cooperative National Resources Unit at the University of Hawaii -- see Anne Marie LaRosa: "The Status of Banana Poka in Hawai'i", pp:271-299, for a weedy, perennial liana from the Andean highlands invading major upland wet and mesic koa and ohi'a (Acacia koa and Metrosideros polymorpha) forests on the islands of Hawai'i and Kaua'i On Tue, 3 May 1994, CTFS wrote: > TO: All forest-net users > FROM: Jim LaFrankie > DATE: 2 May 1994 > > I'd like any references that are available on plant species that have > destructively invaded PRIMARY forests anywhere in the world. I'm > not interested in weeds of secondary forests, but rather shade-tolerant > climbers or other invaders that suppress natural regeneration. I believe > that Lonicera japonica fits the category in the Southeast US. I don't > believe that we have anything of this sort yet in the Malayan-Bornean > forests, but I would like to develop a 'profile' of the kind of pest that is > likely to eventually show up. > > A good reference to Lonicera japonica, its biology and control, would also > be greatly appreciated. > > Thank you. > > James LaFrankie > Center for Tropical Forest Science > 469 Bukit Timah Road > Singapore 1025 >
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