Product Information

This fact sheet gives a brief overview of the projects run by the Defeating The Weed Menace Research and Development Program. Fourteen projects were selected during an initial funding round and they address four different themes:

• Developing ‘best practice’ early detection, survey and eradication of potential weed species
• Assessing risk of different pathways of weed ingress
• Identifying biocontrol agents for priority weed species
• Land use change impacts on weed incursion

Other eleven projects, addressing three separate priority themes were selected for funding during a second funding round:

• Developing new integrated weed management strategies that incorporate an understanding of landscape scale ecological processes
• Developing efficient methods for surveying and eradicating agreed emergent weeds, and options
• Quantifying the impacts of weeds on sustainability and the environment (including the ecological costs of weeds) and the relative benefits and costs of different control measures