Population growth of the floating weed sal vinia molesta: field observations and a global model based on temperature and nitrogen
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...Most projects now undergo some form of evaluation, although this rarely receives comprehensive ecological (Room & Thomas, 1986; Vogt et al., 1992; Hoffmann & Moran, 1999; Paynter & Hennecke, 2001; Sheppard et al., 2002; Swirepik & Smyth, 2002) or economic (Doeleman, 1989; Le Maitre et al., 2001;…...
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...In addition to causing the loss of crops and preventing agricultural operations, flooding is a prominent mechanism in breaking up the mats and distributing fragments that can produce new colonies (Sculthorpe 1985)....
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...As the plants die, organic debris accumulates at the bottom of the water column and can threaten fisheries by creating a shallow-water environment less suited to fish breeding (Sculthorpe 1985)....
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...Even when the mats are not fully impenetrable, the clusters of rhizomes and submerged leaves quickly become entangled around boat propellers, so that the watercraft may sooner or later be immobilized (Sculthorpe 1985)....
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...…(L.) All., S. nymphellula Desv., S. oblongifolia Mart., S. minima Baker, S. sprucei Kuhn], seven of which (S. oblongifolia, S. sprucei, S. minima, S. auriculata, S. herzogii, S. biloba, and S. molesta) originated in the neotropics (Mitchell and Thomas 1972; Sculthorpe 1985; Jacono and Pitman 2001)....
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...Occasionally, plants of various species will colonize thick S. molesta mats, forming “floating islands” of vegetation or mixed sudd communities (Sculthorpe 1985; Holm et al. 1977)....
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