Invasive plants resources and publications

This two-page brochure discusses integrated management of bitou bush using biological control agents in conjunction with conventional methods.

This fact sheet gives a brief overview of the research activities and focus of CSIRO Entomology. (2 pages)

CSIRO research on a tool to track the spread of the devastating weed prickly acacia across Australia’s northern grasslands is described in this article from Farming Ahead. (3 pages)

This two-page article from Farming Ahead looks at the effect of increased herbicide use on soil nitrogen fixation in grain legumes such as field peas.

This one-page poster details the results of glasshouse and field experiment conducted to quantify the effects of the bridal creeper rust fungus Puccinia myrsiphylli.

This article from Farming Ahead details research on the use of computer simulation models to show how climate change is likely to affect the invasive plant, lippia, in the Murray-Darling Basin and how the results are relevant to other riparian weeds. (3 pages)

This article from Farming Ahead describes how willows were originally use to help control erosion but have become a major weed in some areas and CSIRO’s use of molecular tools to look at how they spread in river catchments. (3 pages)

This fact sheet outlines biosecurity research by CSIRO, which is helping to manage the increasing threat and damage from invasive alien species that come with globalisation. (2 pages)

In this Farming Ahead article, CSIRO scientists reveal how they have quantified the amount of water that willows, a major environmental problem in parts of South-East Australia, use. (3 pages)

A one-page extract from Farming Ahead which includes a snapshot of four developments in science from across CSIRO, including animal viruses, integrated weed management, carbon sinks and fire management.