The Biological Campaign Against Prickly-Pear¶
Dodd, A. P. (1940). The Biological Campaign Against Prickly-Pear.
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- Enemy release hypothesis
- Introduced without its natural enemies, prickly pear ran riot across Queensland and New South Wales in the early twentieth century, eventually blanketing something on the order of tens of millions of hectares
This sourceIs the primary account of the Australian prickly-pear infestation and gives the area under dense cactus in Queensland and New South Wales at its peak. Is the primary account of the Cactoblastis cactorum programme and dates the first Australian field releases to the mid-1920s.
- Introduced without its natural enemies, prickly pear ran riot across Queensland and New South Wales in the early twentieth century, eventually blanketing something on the order of tens of millions of hectares
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