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Assessing the relative impacts and economic costs of Japanese knotweed management methods

Sophie Hocking, Trisha Toop Orcid Logo, Daniel Jones Orcid Logo, Ian Graham, Dan Eastwood Orcid Logo

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Swansea University Authors: Sophie Hocking, Dan Eastwood Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1038/s41598-023-30366-9

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Sustainable land management encompasses a range of activity that balance land use requirements with wider conservation and ecosystem impact considerations. Perennial invasive alien plants (IAPs), such as Japanese knotweed, cause severe ecological and socio-economic impacts, and methods to control th...

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