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Fire 49<br />

Other disturbances 50<br />

Shade 51<br />

Soils and nutrients 51<br />

Landform 52<br />

Water, drainage and flooding 52<br />

Other plants 52<br />

Herbivory 53<br />

Physiology and biochemistry 55<br />

Breeding system 56<br />

Seed production 56<br />

Dispersal mechanisms 57<br />

Creeping diaspores 57<br />

Zoochory 58<br />

Cleistogene dispersal 59<br />

Wind 60<br />

Water 60<br />

Human activities 60<br />

Pollen 61<br />

Rates <strong>of</strong> spread 62<br />

Soil seed bank 62<br />

Germination and seedling recruitment 63<br />

Seed dormancy 63<br />

Germination 64<br />

Establishment <strong>of</strong> seedlings and juvenile plants 64<br />

Demography, growth, persistence and dominance 65<br />

Weed status 66<br />

Noxious weed status 67<br />

Undesirable characteristics 67<br />

Control and management 68<br />

Hand removal 69<br />

Herbicides 69<br />

Slashing and mowing 73<br />

Fire 73<br />

Cultivation and cropping 73<br />

Grazing 73<br />

Shade 74<br />

Quarantine and restriction <strong>of</strong> dispersal 74<br />

Integrated management in native vegetation 74<br />

Biological control 75<br />

Predators and pathogens 76<br />

Predators 76<br />

Pathogens 79<br />

Other biotic relationships 80<br />

BIODIVERSITY 81<br />

Definitions 81<br />

Quantification and indices 81<br />

<strong>Impact</strong>s <strong>of</strong> weeds on biodiversity 82<br />

General considerations 82<br />

<strong>Impact</strong> on threatened species and communities 83<br />

Approaches to impact assessment 84<br />

Types <strong>of</strong> impact 84<br />

Specific threats posed by weeds to biodiversity 84<br />

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