Claim · model-written summary
Aphthona beetles controlled leafy spurge for over 15 years without added control.
- Taxon
- leafy spurge
Euphorbia esulae0 - Treatment
- Aphthona spp.e0
- Outcome
- controlled leafy spurgee0
- Direction
- controllede0
AphthonaNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Aphthona spp. successfully controlled leafy spurge for more than 15 yr without any additional control methods or costs to land managers”
Title
Blake M. Thilmony; Rodney G. Lym Invasive Plant Science and Management 2017. doi:10.1017/inp.2017.18
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Leafy spurge stem density fell 94% in loamy overflow sites after 15 years.
- Intervention effect Leafy spurge stem density fell 88% in loamy sites after 15 years.
- Observation Leafy spurge formed 2% of overflow seedbanks in 2004 versus nearly 67% in 1999.
- Observation Leafy spurge formed 6% of loamy seedbanks in 2004 versus nearly 70% in 1999.
- Observation Native species slowly returned to the seedbank over 15 years.
- Observation Desirable species reached 21 in overflow sites by 2014, over triple the 1999 count.
- Observation Desirable species doubled to 14 in loamy sites.
- Observation Less desirable forb species doubled in both sites.
- Observation Desirable grass species doubled in overflow sites.
- Observation Desirable grass species remained unchanged in loamy sites.