Cogongrass (Imperata cylindrica)—Biology, Ecology, and Management
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...The potential of grasses to displace extensive areas of forest is best exemplified in Southeast Asia, where a single grass species (Imperata cylindrica) now dominates soils once covered by moist tropical forest across approximately 300 000 km(2) (MacDonald 2004)....
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...The potential of grasses to displace extensive areas of forest is best exemplified in Southeast Asia, where a single grass species (Imperata cylindrica) now dominates soils once covered by moist tropical forest across approximately 300 000 km2 (MacDonald 2004)....
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...In the western United States, for example, Bradley (2009b) used climatic habitat predictor variables to hypothesize that spring and summer precipitation affect invasive cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Fig....
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...Despite the threat of invasion, privet species are still widely planted for landscaping throughout the United States....
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...Distribution data were collected through an online mapping interface (http://invasive. princeton.edu) where users submitted estimates of invasive plant abundance within one-quarter USGS quadrangles (*36 km2) across the Southeastern United States....
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...Privet was planted extensively in the United States beginning in 1852 as an ornamental hedge; however, it quickly escaped cultivation....
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...southeast United States (Bryson and Carter 1993; MacDonald 2004), where it crowds out native plant species (MacDonald 2004)....
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...Recovery of the original forest state is unlikely without management (e.g., Gunderson 2000, Macdonald 2004)....
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..., Lippincott, 2000); it is considered one of the most invasive plants in the world (MacDonald, 2004)....
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...He further suggested (based on earlier work; Grime, 1977) that cogongrass seedlings are defined as R-strategist (ruderal), invading open patches in disturbed habitats, whereas rhizomes from established stands of cogongrass are more defined as a C-strategist (competitor) that can persist in…...
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...Cogongrass is used as occasional livestock feed for cattle, goats, camels and sheep (Holm et al., 1977)....
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...Holm et al. (1977) and Bryson and Carter (1993) provide a detailed botanical description of cogongrass floral structure and the following descriptions are derived from these works....
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...The leaves are slender, flat and linear-lanceolate, possessing serrated margins and an off-center prominent white mid-rib (Hall, 1978; Holm et al., 1977; Terry et al., 1997)....
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...Rhizome formation in seedling plants is somewhat controversial; Holm et al. (1977) 367 reported rhizome development occurred 4 weeks after germination, whereas Shilling et al. (1997) reported formation at 8 weeks after germination....
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...Holm et al. (1977) rank it as the seventh worst weed in the world and report over 100 common names associated with the species....
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