Seven decades of institutional learning: managing alien plant invasions in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Seven decades of institutional learning: managing alien plant invasions in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
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DOI：
10.1017/s0030605307001871
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发表时间：
2007-04-01
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2.7
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Freitag-Ronaldson, Stefanie
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Foxcroft, Llewellyn C.;Freitag-Ronaldson, Stefanie
长期的生态和经济可持续性将最终决定任何养护管理方案的结果。1937年首次在南非克鲁格国家公园记录的外来入侵植物，现在被认为是对该公园生物多样性的最大威胁之一。自1956年以来，这些工厂一直在公园内管理，主要通过试验和错误的过程进行控制。入侵植物管理策略的完善导致了对目标植物的生物学和生态学、除草剂使用和除草剂-植物相互作用以及生物控制的植物-昆虫相互作用的理解。事实证明，必须认真整合不同的控制方法，以确保最适当地使用技术，从现有资源中取得尽可能好的结果，并实现长期可持续性。我们概述了发展的控制工作和目前的控制方案，并将其纳入克鲁格国家公园在过去的70年的机构记忆的过程。
Long-term ecological and economic sustainability will ultimately determine the outcome of any conservation management programme. Invasive alien plants, first recorded in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, in 1937, are now recognized as one of the greatest threats to the biodiversity of this Park. Such plants have been managed in the Park since 1956, with control advancing mainly through a process of trial and error. Refinement of invasive plant management strategies has resulted in an understanding of the target plants' biology and ecology, herbicide use and herbicide-plant interactions, as well as the plant-insect interactions of biological control. Careful integration of different control methods has proved essential to ensure the most appropriate use of techniques to deliver the best possible results from the resources available and achieve long-term sustainability. We outline the development of control efforts and current control programmes and the process of their incorporation into the institutional memory of Kruger National Park over the last 7 decades.