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Funding Program:
Integrated Pest Management Competitive Grants Program |
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Project Title:
The identification and control of invasive plants in Arizona |
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Lead State: AZ Lead Organization: University of Arizona |
| Undesignated Funding: $14,995 |
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Start Date: Mar-01-2018 End Date: Mar-01-2019 |
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Pests Involved: Invasive plants |
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Site/Commodity: Statewide |
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Area of Emphasis: Integrated pest management |
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Summary:
As a result of the invasion and subsequent negative impacts of non-native plant species across Arizona, many groups have developed noxious plant lists, including state agencies and non-profit organizations. Despite the abundance of these invasive species lists, missing from all of these resources is an equivalent or associated resource guide for managing high priority weeds based on the results of field trials and published as agency reports or peer-reviewed studies. A comprehensive management guide that enumerates promising IPM strategies to control high priority weeds is needed to address the demand of Arizona’s diverse stakeholder group. We propose to update an existing guide of invasive plants in Arizona, which has not been significantly updated since 2009. Like all outreach products listing invasive plant names and characteristics in Arizona, the existing guide does not currently provide IPM information for any species. To update the guide, we plan to (1) ensure that the current listing is up-to-date and includes emerging invasives, (2) identify and organize all of the peer-reviewed and grey literature that describes weed control experiments on the species highlighted in our guide and, (3) summarize this data in the guide to provide management recommendations. Although targeted for individuals who live and work in Arizona, the guide will also be useful for Western stakeholders in general because many of the plant species that prove to be particularly invasive in Arizona ecosystems, are problematic elsewhere. We will deliver guide to agency offices and make it available on multiple websites online.
Objectives: 1) Update the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension ‘Non-native, Invasive Plants of Arizona’ guide to ensure that all state-wide top priority weeds and emerging weeds are included. Based on the expertise and well-established network of Arizona land managers of the PIs, we expect to achieve this objective within three months of the project start date. We have identified sources to inform our update, and we are comfortable in our collective abilities to leverage our network to identify all emerging weeds across the state. As a result, the likelihood of achieving this objective is very high. 2) Complete a search and synthesis of the peer-reviewed and grey literature of all studies that can inform a general IPM recommendation for all species included in the guide. We are requesting funding for a dedicated technician to complete this search and expect that this will take approximately six months to complete. The technician funded for this work will be chosen based on demonstrated experience in literature review and synthesis, and will be directly guided by both PIs. Further, both PIs have experience executing data syntheses and reviews. As a result, the likelihood of achieving this objective in six months is very high. 3) Ensure the delivery of the IPM guide (both printed and online) to relevant stakeholders within one year of completion. Both PIs have extensive experience delivering outreach products to stakeholders and we are very confident that we can achieve this objective within a year of project completion. |
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