Prioritizing candidate agents for the biological control of weeds

• Published in: Biological control Vol. 188; p. 105396
• Main Author: Paynter, Quentin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Inc 01.01.2024; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agent selection; Arthropod; biological control; data collection; host specificity; New Zealand; parasitoids; Predict impact; Scoring system; species; weeds; New Zealand; Arthropod; Agent selection; Scoring system; Predict impact

•Hypothesized predictors of agent impact were investigated with an NZ dataset.•Damaging species in the native range were often damaging in the introduced range.•Agents with a ‘native ecological analogue’ were all unsuccessful.•Success varied with agent guild and taxon.•These factors may assist preli...