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This project aimed to understand the biology and impacts of rubber bush and contributed to effective management and control strategies.
The Biological control of bellyache bush: Native range surveys in South America project investigated potential biological control agents for bellyache bush (Jatropha gossypiifolia) in Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay.…
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The project, Preliminary investigation of prickly acacia dieback, investigated naturally occurring Indian biocontrols to combat prickly acacia which currently infests large tracts of western Queensland grasslands. Summary Prickly…
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The project New detection and classification algorithms for mapping woody weeds from UAV data followed on from the project UAV surveillance systems for the management of woody weeds…
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This project aimed to identify natural control agents that naturally infest or infect prickly acacia in India.
Parkinsonia is classified as a “Weed of National Significance” due to its invasiveness, potential for spread, and its economic and environmental impacts. It has invaded over 800,000 hectares…
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The ‘Biocontrol of prickly acacia: host specificity testing of agents from India’ project builds on the findings of ’New biocontrol opportunities for prickly acacia: exploration in India’, and tests the host specificity of leaf-webbing caterpillars and scale insects in quarantine.