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  title info:
    title: Occupation, dispersal, and economic impact of major invasive plant species in southern U.S. forests
  name:
    name part: Wang, Hsiao-Hsuan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Gan, Jianbang
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Invasive alien plants have impacted southern U.S. forests. This study focuses on quantifying current distribution, rate of dispersals, and economic losses caused by four major invaders - Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera (L.) Small), Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense Lour.), European Privet (Ligustrum vulgare L.), and Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica Thunb.). Using data from USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and USGS Land Use and Land Cover (LULC), I first used logistic regressions to build occupation models for these four species. Second, I used VB.NET© (Microsoft, 2003) and Environment System Research Institute (ESRI) Arc View® 9.2 Geographical Information System (GIS) to model spatially explicit dispersal dynamics of these species. Finally, I evaluated economic losses associated with these invasions. The results of occupation models showed that landscape features, climatic conditions, forest and site conditions, forest management activities and disturbances, and forest ownership have statistically significant impacts on current distributions of all four species. The results of dispersal models showed that invasions of Chinese tallow, Chinese and European privets, and Japanese honeysuckle will be likely to appear on approximately 6.65 million acres of forest land in East Texas and Louisiana, 3.81 million acres in Mississippi and Alabama, and 12.55 million acres in Mississippi and Alabama, respectively, during the next 20 years. The estimated timber losses resulting from the invasion with no control for the next 20 years at 5% discount rate is 518 million dollars for Chinese tallow, 2.72 billion dollars for Chinese and European privets, and 11.05 billion dollars for Japanese honeysuckle. From an economic point of view, it would be most cost effective to execute high intensity control for these invasive species. Based on these findings, strategies for monitoring and mitigating th…
  note: by Hsiao-Hsuan Wang.
  note: "Major Subject: Forestry"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-02-28 11:02:00).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7516
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Occupation model
  subject:
    topic: dispersal model
  subject:
    topic: invasive plant species
  subject:
    topic: economic impact
  subject:
    topic: Southern U.S. forests
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-12-7516
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110309
    record change date: 20151202115716.0
    record identifier: in00002683153