Bioenergy and Biological Invasions Ecological, Agronomic and Policy Perspectives on Minimizing Risk

Despite major international investment in biofuels, the invasive risks associated with these crops are still unknown. A cohesive state-of-the-art review of the invasive potential of bioenergy crops, this book covers the identified risks of invasion, distributions of key crops and policy and management issues. Including a section on developing predictive models, this book also assesses the potential societal impact of bioenergy crops and how to mitigate invasive risks.

Introduction

1) The Bioenergy Landscape

Section 1: Biology, Ecology and Agronomy

2) Ecology of Candidate Crops outside of Cultivation & Naturalized Populations

3) Modeling a Potential Invasion

4) Potential Risks of Algae as Biofuel

5) Gene Flow and Invasiveness in Bioenergy Systems

Section 2: Policy and Regulations

6) Risk Assessment: Parsing the Weeds from the Crops

7) Are Current Regulations and Policies Robust enough to Prevent Large-scale Invasion?

Section 3: Mitigation

8) What Agronomic Methods would Increase or Reduce Invasive Potential?

9) How the Industry will Mitigate Invasion Risk

10) Eradication: Identifying the Last Resort as a First Step