@article{58bcdcefb07244439cf916b26064dc08,
title = "Prioritisation of targets for weed biological control II: the South African Biological Control Target Selection system",
abstract = "Invasive alien plants (IAPs) are considered one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in South Africa and are often associated with negative socio-economic and human health consequences. Biocontrol is seen as an effective strategy for managing IAPs however it can realistically only be considered for a subset of such plants given the limited funding resources available. Some plants are also better targets for biocontrol than others. This paper develops a prioritisation system to create an objective, transparent and easily usable method in which to target IAPs plants that are most suited to biocontrol in South Africa. The Biological Control Target Selection (BCTS) system builds on twelve previously developed prioritisation systems. The system uses three sections encompassing thirteen attributes that are combined to present the highest predicative powers to rank potential target IAPs as biocontrol targets.",
keywords = "biocontrol of weeds, Invasive alien plants, prioritisation, target selection system",
author = "Paterson, {Iain D.} and Hill, {Martin P.} and Kim Canavan and Downey, {Paul O.}",
note = "Funding Information: This work is supported by funding from the South African Working for Water (WfW) programme of the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries: National Resource Management (DEFF: NRM) programmes. Funding was also provided by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. This work was undertaken as part an Outside Study Program (OSP) in which POD was relieved from teaching responsibilities at the University of Canberra. POD undertook part of this programme at Rhodes University. The authors thank Guy Sutton, Philip Weyl, Grant Martin, Steve Compton for their valuable feedback. Any opinion, finding, conclusion or recommendation expressed in this material is that of the authors and the NRF does not accept any liability in this regard. We thank three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions that improved this paper. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1080/09583157.2021.1918637",
language = "English",
volume = "31",
pages = "566--583",
journal = "Biocontrol Science and Technology",
issn = "0958-3157",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "6",
}