Prioritising weed management activities in a data deficient environment: the Pilbara islands, Western Australia.

ABSTRACT: Along the Pilbara coast of Western Australia (WA) there are approximately 598 islands with a total area of around 500 km(2). Budget limitations and logistical complexities mean the management of these islands tends to be opportunistic. Until now there has been no review of the establishment and impacts of weeds on Pilbara islands or any attempt to prioritise island weed management. In many instances only weed occurrence has been documented, creating a data deficient environment for management decision making. The purpose of this research was to develop a database of weed occurrences on WA islands and to create a prioritisation process that will generate a ranked list of island-weed combinations using currently available data. Here, we describe a model using the pairwise comparison formulae

SUBMITTER: Lohr C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945735 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature