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Mile-a-Minute Weed Mikania micrantha Kunth

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Biological Invasions and Its Management in China

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The mile-a-minute Mikania micrantha Kunth is native to tropical Central and South America. In China, this species is mainly distributed in Southern China, such as Hong Kong, Yunnan, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Macao and Jiangxi. M. micrantha causes native plants which are unable to photosynthesis thereby then suppresses their growth even kills them. The weed has caused disastrous damages to various agricultural and forestry ecosystems in China, including farmlands, orchards, forests, and so on. A number of economic trees such as oil palms, coconuts, cocoa, tea trees, rubbers and teaks have suffered serious damages from this weed, resulting in huge economic loss. In the past two decades, enormous studies have been conducted on this weed regarding its control approaches, including mechanical removal, chemical control, biological control, and ecological control. In this chapter, we reviewed the major information of these aspects and present the prospective on what would have to be done to develop an integrated management system for this weed.

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  1. Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Shichou Han, Zhigang Li & Qiyun Xu

  2. Guangdong Public Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Shichou Han, Zhigang Li & Qiyun Xu

  3. Guangdong Key Laboratory of Integrated Pest Management in Agriculture, Guangzhou, 510260, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Shichou Han, Zhigang Li & Qiyun Xu

  4. Southern China Botany Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

    Lingling Zhang

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Han, S., Li, Z., Xu, Q., Zhang, L. (2017). Mile-a-Minute Weed Mikania micrantha Kunth. In: Wan, F., Jiang, M., Zhan, A. (eds) Biological Invasions and Its Management in China. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, vol 13. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3427-5_9

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