The area of the imported weed Scotch Broom (Cytisus scoparius) is steadily expanding and eliminating natural ecosystems and their habitats of rare and endangered species in Barrington Tops National Park. A research project, funded by the CRC for Weeds Management Systems, has commenced to provide...

Scotch Broom is a serious environmental weed in Barrington Tops National Park and the surrounding areas. It poses a significant threat of reducing the diversity of flora in invaded ecosystems and generating a false understorey. It also harbours feral pigs, which perpetuate the cycle of...

Scotch Broom is an invasive weed in many subalpine ecosystems. It often has substantial negative effects on ecosystem structure and functions. Decisions on optimal management strategies require predictions of the rates and patterns of Scotch Broom spread. This paper explores the environmental...

Weeds have many adverse impacts on agriculture and the environment and therefore are often targets of eradication attempts. Eradication attempts involve large commitments of labour and financial resources over significant periods of time. Using data from 12 Australian weed eradication attempts...

The present trend to more quantitative analysis for public decisions on land allocation has included studies based on the opportunity cost criterion. This encouraging trend could be promoted through improved use of the criterion. Two important improvements are the analysis of uncertainty and the...

Environmental weeds are plants that invade natural ecosystems and are considered to be a serious threat to nature conservation. Environmental weeds have been implicated in the extinction of several indigenous plant species, and they also threaten ecosystem stability and functional complexity....