Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
Report on invasive plant species in the Cook Islands
Appendix 19. Background material and references
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Cronk, Q. C. B., and J. L. Fuller. 1995. Plant invaders. Chapman and Hall. 241 pp.
Csurhes, S. and R. Edwards. 1998. Potential environmental weeds in Australia: Candidate species for preventative control. Canberra, Australia. Biodiversity Group, Environment Australia. 208 pp.
D’Antonio, C. M., and P. M. Vitousek. 1992. Biological invasions by exotic grasses, the grass-fire cycle, and global change. Ann. Rev. Ecol. And System. 23:63-87.
Drake, J., F. di Castri, R. Groves, F. Kruger, H. Mooney, R. Rejmanek and M. Williamson, eds. 1989. Biological Invasions: A Global Perspective. John Wiley & Sons, NY. 525 pp.
Hafliger, E. and H. Scholz. 1980. Grass Weeds. CIBA-GEIBY Ltd., Basle, Switzerland. Two volumes.
Hafliger, E. 1980. Monocot Weeds. CIBA-GEIBY Ltd., Basle, Switzerland. 132 pp. plus plates.
Harley, K. L. S., and I. W. Forno. 1992. Biological control of weeds: A handbook for practitioners and students. Inkata Press, Melbourne/Sydney. 74 pp.
Holm, Leroy G., D. L. Plucknett, J. V. Pancho, and J. P. Herberger. 1977. The world’s worst weeds: Distribution and Ecology. East-West Center/University Press of Hawai‘i. 609 pp.
Hughes, Colin E. 1994. Risks of species introductions in tropical forestry. Commonwealth Forestry Review 73(4):243-252.
Julien, M. H. (ed.) 1992. Biological control of weeds: A world catalogue of agents and their target weeds (third edition). CAB International, Wallingford, UK. pp. 89-108, 138-141.
Large, M. F. and Q. C. B. Cronk. 1996. Ardisia: the next pest? Aliens 4:4.
MacArthur, R. H., and E. O. Wilson. 1967. The theory of island biogeogrphy. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press. 203 pp.
Merlin, M. D. 1985. Woody vegetation in the upland region of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. Pac. Sci. 39(1):81-99.
Merlin, M. D. 1991. Woody vegetation on the raised coral limestone of Mangaia, southern Cook Islands. Pac. Sci. 45(2):131-151.
Meyer, J-Y. 1998. Mécanismes et gestion des invasions biologiques par des plantes introduites dans des forêts naturales à Hawai‘i et Polynésie Française: une étude de cas [Mechanisms and management of biological invasions by alien plants in Hawaiian and French Polynesian natural forests: a case study]. Dèlégation à la Recherche, B.P. 20981 Papeete, Tahiti, Polynésie Française.
Meyer, J-Y. 2000. Preliminary review of the invasive plants in the Pacific islands (SPREP Member Countries) in: Sherley, G. (tech. ed.). Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Samoa. 190 pp.
Meyer, J-Y, and J. Florence. 1996. Tahiti’s native flora endangered by the invasion of Miconia calvescens DC. (Melastomataceae). Journal of Biogeography 23:775-781.
Mueller-Dombois, D., and F. R. Fosberg. 1998. Vegetation of the tropical Pacific Islands. New York, Springer-Verlag. 733 pp.
Muniappan, R. 1989. Operational and scientific notes: Biological control of Lantana Camara L. in Yap. Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc. 29:195-196.
Muniappan, R., G.R.W. Denton, J.W. Brown, T.S. Lali, U. Prasad and P. Sing. 1996. Effectiveness of the natural enemeis of Lantana camara on Guam: A site and seasonal evaluation. Entomophaga 41(2):167-182.
Muniappan, R., and C. A. Viraktamath. 1986. Status of biological control of the weed, Lantana camara in India. Trop. Pest Management 32(1):40-42.
Parsons, W. T. and E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia. Inkata Press, Melbourne/Sydney. 692 pp.
Smith, A. C. 1979-1991. Flora Vitiensis nova: a new flora of Fiji. Lawai, Kauai, Hawai‘i. National Tropical Botanical Garden. Six Volumes.
Staples, G. W., D. Herbst and C. T. Imada. 2000. Survey of invasive or potentially invasive cultivated plants in Hawai‘i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers No. 65. 35 pp.
Stone, B. C. The flora of Guam. Micronesica 6:1-659.
Swarbrick, J. T. 1997. Weeds of the Pacific Islands. Technical paper No. 209. South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 124 pp.
Thaman, R. R. 1999. Sphagneticola trilobata: Daisy invader of the Pacific Islands. Preliminary draft discussion paper prepared for the SPREP Regional Invasive Species Strategy for the South Pacific Islands Region, Nadi, Fiji, 26 September-1 October, 1999.
Tolfts, Andrew. Cordia alliodora: the best laid plans… Aliens 6 (1997): 12-13.
Wagner, W. L., D. R. Herbst and S. H. Sohmer. 1999. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai‘i, revised edition with supplement by Wagner, W. L. and D. R. Herbst, pp. 1855-1918. University of Hawai‘i Press, 1919 pp. in 2 volumes.
Waterhouse, D. F. 1993. Biological control: Pacific prospects. Supplement 2. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra. 138 pp.
Waterhouse, D. F. 1994. Biological control of weeds: Southeast Asian prospects. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra. 302 pp.
Waterhouse, D.F. 1997. The major invertebrate pests and weeds of agriculture and plantation forestry in the Southern and Western Pacific. The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra. 69 pp.
Waterhouse, D. F. and K. R. Norris. 1987. Biological control: Pacific prospects. Inkata Press, Melbourne. 454 pp.
Welsh, S. L. 1998. Flora Societensis: A summary revision of the flowering plants of the Society Islands. E.P.S. Inc., Orem, Utah. 420 pp.
Whistler, W. A.. 1983b. Weed Handbook of Western Polynesia. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn. 151 pp.
Whistler, W. A. 1988. Checklist of the weed flora of western Polynesia. Technical Paper No. 194, South Pacific Commission, Noumea, New Caledonia. 69 pp.
Whistler, W. A. 1990. Ethnobotany of the Cook Islands: The plants, their Maori names, and their uses. Allertonia 5(4):347-424.
Whistler, W. A. 1992a. Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore. Isle Botanica, Honolulu. 154 pp.
Whistler, W. A. 1992b. Vegetation of Samoa and Tonga. Pac. Sci. 46(2):159-178.
Whistler, W. A.. 1995. Wayside Plants of the Islands. Isle Botanica, Honolulu. 202 pp.
Williamson, M. 1996. Biological Invasions. Chapman and Hall. 244 pp.
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