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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@sunsite.unc.edu>
  • To: permanet@sunsite.unc.edu
  • Subject: The Permaculturist's Bookmark: Weeds of the World (fwd)
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 10:49:56 -0500 (EST)



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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:20:05 +0000
From: Steve Diver <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
Subject: The Permaculturist's Bookmark: Weeds of the World

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The Permaculturist's Bookmark: Weeds of the World Project
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Weeds of the World Project
http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/wwd/wwd.htm

This bookmark is a good resource for permaculturists
in several ways.

1.
It is a follow-up to the recent discussion on this permaculture
list regarding native plants versus invasive exotic plants that
disrupt vegetation patterns and negatively impact
ecosystems.

2.
It contains a bibliography of 15 key books and reports
on the whole topic of invasive exotics as noxious weeds,
the ecology of non-indigenous plant species, et cetera.....many
titles focus on Hawaii and Australia, but the following titles
are noteworthy to North America.

Reichard S.E. (1994) [Phd Thesis] Assessing the Potential
of Invasiveness in Woody Plants Introduced to North America.
University of Washington.

US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. (1993) Harmful
Non-Indigenous Species in the United States, OTA-F-565. US
Government Printing Office, Washington DC.

Weeds of the World Project: Bibliography
http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/wwd/bacon14.htm

3.
It provides an extensive summary of existing or in-progress
computer databases and software that are used to catalog
information on weedy plants, regional flora, rare and endangered
species, et cetera. Please note: the Weeds of the World Project
contains an on-line template patterned after the Holm Database,
but the actual database itself has yet to be funded.

For computer-savvy permaculturists, it provides a nice
introduction to database formats and software that may be
suitable for permaculture species lists, useful plants, plant
characteristics, et cetera.

Worldwide Databases and Communication Groups
http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/wwd/bacon5.htm

4.
One of the driving forces behind the Weeds of the World Project
is to provide knowledge on the effects of global climate change
on plant distribution and invasive weeds.

However, Dr Sarah Reichard's Phd thesis on "Assessing
the Potential of Invasiveness in Woody Plants Introduced to
North America" concluded that:

"it is very difficult to predict potential invasiveness
of a specific plant from its growth habit, and the
only good predictor of potential invasiveness is
a plants behaviour in habitats outside of its
indigenous ecosystem."

Appendix - List of Participants and Projects
http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/wwd/bacon15.htm
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Steve Diver
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