Page 23 - EER-2-1

Explora: Environment
and Resource Data should determine biocontrol success

27. Richardson DM, Kluge RL. Seed banks of invasive Australian climatic suitability. Divers Distrib. 2004;10(5004; Distrib
Acacia species in South Africa: Role in invasiveness and 39. Holmes PM, Esler KJ, van Wilgen BW, Richardson DM.
options for management. Perspect Plant Ecol Evol Syst. Ecological restoration of ecosystems degraded by invasive
2008;10(3):161-177.
alien plants in South African Fynbos: Is spontaneous
doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2008.03.001 succession a viable strategy? Trans R Soc S Afr.
2020;75(2):111-139.
28. Van Wilgen BW, de Wit MP, Anderson HJ, et al. Costs and
benefits of biological control of invasive alien plants: Case doi: 10.1080/0035919X.2020.1781291
studies from South Africa. S Afr J Sci. 2004;100:113-122.
40. Simpson RL, Leck MA, Parker VT. Seed banks: General
29. Wood AR, Morris MJ. Impact of the gall-forming rust concepts and methodological issues. In: Leck MA,
fungus Uromycladium tepperianum on the invasive tree Parker VT, Simpson RL, editors. Ecology of Soils Seed Banks.
Acacia saligna in South Africa: 15 years of monitoring. Biol California: Academic Press, Inc.; 1989. p. 3-7.
Control. 2007;41:68-77.
41. Gibson MR, Richardson DM, Marchante E, et al.
30. Henderson L, Wilson JR. Changes in the composition and Reproductive biology of Australian acacias: Important
distribution of alien plants in South Africa: An update mediator of invasiveness? Divers Distrib. 2011;17(5):911-933.
from the Southern African Plant Invaders Atlas. Bothalia. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00808.x
2017;47:1-26.
42. Milton SJ. Studies on Australian Acacias in the South Western Cape,
31. Impson F, Marchante H, Marchante E, López-Núñez F, Hill R, South Africa. (Master thesis, University of Cape Town); 1980.
Minteer C. Biological control of Acacia species: History,
progress and prospects. In: Richardson DM, Roux JJL, 43. Milton SJ, Hall AV. Reproductive biology of Australian
Marchante E, editors. Wattles: Australian Acacia Species acacias in the south-western Cape province, South Africa.
Around the World. Wallingford, CABI; 2023. p. 327-341. Trans R Soc S Afr. 1981;44:465-487.
32. Moran VC, Hoffmann JH, Olckers T. Politics and ecology doi: 10.1080/00359198109520589
in the management of alien invasive woody trees: The 44. Knight RS. Fruit displays of indigenous and invasive alien
pivotal role of biological control agents that diminish plants in the south-western Cape. S Afr J Bot. 1986;52:249-255.
seed production. In: Cullen JM, Briese DT, Kriticos DJ,
Lonsdale WM, Morin L, Scott JK, editors. Proceedings of the 45. Donnelly D, Stewart K. An indigenous tortricid moth on
XI International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. the seeds of the alien weed Acacia cyclops in South Africa:
Canberra, Australia; 2003. p. 434-439. A potential for biological control. J Entomol Soc South Afr.
1990;53:201-202.
33. Cheney C, Esler KJ, Foxcroft LC, van Wilgen NJ, Scenarios
for the management of invasive Acacia species in a protected 46. Dennill GB. The effect of seed feeding Hemipterans (Family:
area: Implications of clearing efficacy. J Environ Manag. Alydidae) on the seeds of Acacia cyclops in the South
2019;238:274-282. Western Cape. In: Neser S, Cairns ALP, editors. Proceedings
of the Fifth National Weeds Conference of South Africa.
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.112 Stellenbosch, Balkema; 1983. p. 182-187.
34. Henderson L. Invasive alien woody plants of the southern 47. Holmes PM, Dennill GB, Moll EJ. Effects of feeding by
and southwestern Cape region, South Africa. Bothalia. native alydid insects on the seed viability of an alien invasive
1998;28:91-112.
weed, Acacia cyclops. S Afr J Sci. 1987;83:580-581.
doi: 10.4102/abc.v28i1.624
48. Holmes PM, Rebelo AG. The occurrence of seed-feeding
35. Henderson L. Invasive, naturalized and casual alien plants in Zulubius acaciaphagus (Hemiptera, Alydidae) and its effect
Southern Africa: A summary based on the Southern African on Acacia cyclops seed germination and seed banks in South
Plant Invaders Atlas (SAPIA). Bothalia. 2007;37:215-248. Africa. S Afr J Bot. 1988;54:319-324.
doi: 10.4102/abc.v37i2.322 49. Holmes PM. Indigenous seed-feeding bugs on alien Acacia
cyclops. Veld Flora. 1989;75:121-122.
36. Hall AV, Boucher C. The threat posed by alien weed to the
Cape Flora. In: Proceedings of the Second National Weeds 50. Impson FA, Moran VC, Hoffmann JH. Biological control
Conference of South Africa. Cape Town, Balkema; 1977. of an alien tree, Acacia cyclops, in South Africa: Impact and
p. 35-45. dispersal of a seed-feeding weevil, Melanterius servulus. Biol
Control. 2004;29(3):375-81.
37. Stirton CH. Plant Invaders; Beautiful, but Dangerous. Cape
Town: Cape Provincial Administration; 1978. 51. Jones RM. Preliminary studies of the germination of
seed of Acacia cyclops and Acacia cyanophylla. S Afr J Sci.
38. Rouget M, Richardson DM, Nel JL, Le Maitre DC, Egoh B,
Mgidi T. Mapping the potential ranges of major plant 1963;59:296-298.
invaders in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland using 52. Holmes PM. Implications of alien Acacia seed bank viability

Volume 2 Issue 1 (2025) 17 doi: 10.36922/eer.5876