issg Database: Management and Information Links for Frangula alnus

Frangula alnus (shrub)

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         Management Information

For details on physical, chemical and biological control of this species please read our pdf file on management information.

         Management Resources/Links

1. Canadian Wildlife Services. 2003. Glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula L.). Species Fact Sheet.
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
Available from: http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/publications/inv/p4_e.cfm [Accessed 24 August 2004]
2. Catling, P. M., and Z. S. Porebski. 1994. The history of invasion and current status of glossy Buckthorn, Rhamnus frangula, in southern Ontario. Canadian Field Naturalist 108 (3): 305-310 [Accessed 24 August 2004]
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
3. Converse, C. K. 1984. Element Stewardship Abstract for Rhamnus cathartica, Rhamnus frangula (syn. Frangula alnus). The Nature Conservancy.
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
Available from: http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/esadocs/documnts/franaln.html [Accessed 27 July 2004]
4. Fagan, M. E., and D. R. Peart. 2004. Impact of the invasive shrub glossy buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula L.) on juvenile recruitment by canopy trees. Forest Ecology and Management 194: 95-107.
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
5. Gutierrez, D., and C. D. Thomas. 2000. Marginal range expansion in a hose-limited butterfly species Gonepteryx rhamni. Ecological Entomology 25: 165-170
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
6. Haber, E. 2001. Invasive Plant Data Summary and Control Options: Glossy Buckthorn. National Botanical Services, Ottawa, Canada. ehaber@magi.com.
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
Available from: http://24.114.142.233/nbs/ipcan/glo_buck.html [Accessed 24 August 2004]
7. Hampe, A., and F. Bairlein. 2000. Modified dispersal-related traits in disjunct populations of bird-dispersed Frangula alnus (Rhamnaceae): a result of its Quaternary distribution shifts?. Ecography 23: 603-613
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
8. Hampe, A., J. Arroyo, P. Jordano, and R. J. Petit. 2003. Rangewide phylogeography of a bird-dispersed Eurasian shrub: contrasting Mediterranean and temperate glacial refugia. Molecular Ecology 12: 3415-3426
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
9. IPANE (Invasive Plant Atlas of New England). 2001. Frangula alnus (Glossy buckthorn, European alder buckthorn). University of Connecticut.
        Summary: Information on description, economic importance, distribution, habitat, history, growth, and impacts and management of species.
Available from: http://webapps.lib.uconn.edu/ipane/browsing.cfm?descriptionid=21 [Accessed 24 August 2004]
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