Database of Usambara invasive plants
Publications
Dawson, W., Mndolwa, A.S., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2008) Assessing the risks of plant invasions arising from collections in tropical botanical gardens Biodiversity and Conservation, 17:1979-1995.
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) The suitability of weed risk assessment as a conservation tool to identify invasive plant threats in East African rainforests. Biological Conservation 142:1018-1024.
Dawson, W., Burslem, D.F.R.P. & Hulme, P.E. (2009) Herbivory is related to taxonomic isolation, but not to invasiveness of tropical alien plants. Diversity and Distribution 15:141-147.
Follow up projects
Management and control options for Cedrela odorata, a potential invasive woody species in Kimboza Forest Reserve, Morogoro Tanzania. (Samora M. Andrew, John Richard, Chelestino Balama & Edward Ezekiel)
Towards management of invasive plants in tropical forest ecosystems: trials of control methods of Azadirachta indica (Halima Penga & Dos Santos Silayo)
Cultivation of Cedrela odorata: an alien species (Matthew Mpanda)
Cedrela odorata invasion in the Uluguru Mountains (Jasson John, Chelestino Balama & Edward Ezekiel)
Results of a risk assessment of alien plant species in Ngorongoro (Hassan Nkya, Hildegarde Aloyce & Martina Hagwet)
Risks associated with alien plants at Saadani National Park (Halima Penga)
Spread of Cedrela odorata in Amani Nature Reserve (Mathew Mpanda)
Education posters
Cultivation of Cedrela odorata; an alien species Amani Nature Reserve, East Usambaras, Tanzania (pdf)
Spishi za mimea vamiz isiyo ya asili Tanzania: Ni Zipi? Esther F Mvungi (pdf)
What are invasive species? Esther F Mvungi
Conference talks
Wayne Dawson, David F.R.P. Burslem, Philip E. Hulme and Ahmed S. Mndolwa "What determines plant invasion success? A case study of Amani Botanical Garden, East Usambaras, Tanzania". The 9th International Conference on the Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants, 17th-21st September, 2007, Perth, Australia.
Wayne Dawson, David F.R.P. Burslem and Philip E. Hulme "What determines plant species invasiveness? A case study of Amani Botanical Garden, East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania". British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, September 2007, University of Glasgow.
Wayne Dawson, David F.R.P. Burslem, Philip E. Hulme and Ahmed S. Mndolwa "What determines plant invasion success? Testing traits with tropical trees in Amani Botanical Garden. Tanzania". 20th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Tropical Ecology, 21st-25th February 2007, Alexander Koenig Museum, Bonn, Germany.
Wayne Dawson, David F.R.P. Burslem and Philip E. Hulme "Aliens in Amani: assessing plant traits and quantifying the threat of forest invasions". British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, September 2006, University of Oxford.
