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Agave americana
(Agavaceae)
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Species description or overview
Agave americana information from PIER
Information on Agave americana as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).
Taxonomy & nomenclature
ITIS nomenclature info for Agave americana
Nomenclatural information about Agave americana is provided by ITIS.
Impacts
Agave americana (Agavaceae): species information from GCW
Information on Agave americana as relevant to Pacific Islands is provided by the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).
Images
Images of Agave americana (Agavaceae) (century plant)
Links to high-resolution free images of Agave americana (Agavaceae) (century plant) by Forest & Kim Starr (USGS) are available here.
Agave americana images from PIER
Images of Agave americana provided by the Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk project (PIER).
Distribution
Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review
and draft regional strategy (2000)
The status of invasive plants, vertebrates, arthropods, molluscs, and crustaceans, and options for a regional invasive species strategy for the South Pacific are presented in this series of articles from the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, 2000.
Books
A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants
Perry, Frances and Roy Hay. 1982. A field guide to tropical and subtropical plants. Ward Lock Limited, Great Britain. 136 pp. illus. ISBN: 0-442-26859-9.
Full-text articles
Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research
Stone, Charles P., Clifford W. Smith, and J. Timothy Tunison (eds.) . 1992. Alien plant invasions in native ecosystems of Hawaii: Management and research. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Cooperative National Park Resources Studies Unit. ISBN: 0-8248-1474-6.
Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy
South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Sherley, Greg (ed.) . 2000. Invasive species in the Pacific: A technical review and draft regional strategy. Apia, Samoa: South Pacific Regional Environment Programme. ISBN: 982-04-0214-X.
Bibliography
References for Agave americana
Bibliographic references for Agave americana are provided by HEAR.
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