Resources

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Downloadable Resources

Brochure - California Alliance for Tamarisk Biocontrol (PDF(link is external) or PPT(link is external))

Tamarisk and Tamarisk Beetle Monitoring Protocol (PDF(link is external)) and Datasheet (Excel(link is external))

Media

California Alliance for Tamarisk Biocontrol Media Kit (PDF(link is external))

Cal-IPC Dispatch Article 2017 (PDF(link is external))

Final Order of CBD-APHIS Lawsuit (PDF(link is external))

 

Literature

Bean, D. W., Dalin, P., & Dudley, T. L. (2012). Evolution of critical day length for diapause induction enables range expansion of Diorhabda carinulata, a biological control agent against tamarisk (Tamarix spp.). Evolutionary applications, 5(5), 511-523 (PDF(link is external)).

Cosse, A. A., Bartelt, R. J., Zilkowski, B. W., Bean, D. W., & Petroski, R. J. (2005). The aggregation pheromone of Diorhabda elongata, a biological control agent of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.): identification of two behaviorally active components. Journal of chemical ecology, 31(3), 657-670. (PDF(link is external))

Dudley, T. L., & Bean, D. W. (2012). Tamarisk biocontrol, endangered species risk and resolution of conflict through riparian restoration. BioControl, 57(2), 331-347 (PDF(link is external)).

Dudley, T. L., DeLoach, C. J., Levich, J. E., & Carruthers, R. I. (2000, March). Saltcedar invasion of western riparian areas: impacts and new prospects for control. In Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference (Vol. 65, pp. 345-381).

Drus, G. M., Dudley, T. L., Brooks, M. L., & Matchett, J. R. (2013). The effect of leaf beetle herbivory on the fire behavior of tamarisk (Tamarix ramosissima Lebed.). International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22(4), 446-458.

Drus, Gail M., Dudley, T.L., D’Antonio, C.M., Thomas J. Even, Matt L. Brooks, and J. R. Matchett. "Synergistic interactions between leaf beetle herbivory and fire enhanced tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) mortality." Biological Control 77 (2014): 29-40. (PDF(link is external))

Lambert, A. M., D’antonio, C. M., & Dudley, T. L. (2010). Invasive species and fire in California ecosystems. Fremontia, 38(2), 38. (PDF(link is external))

Shafroth, P. B., Cleverly, J. R., Dudley, T. L., Taylor, J. P., Riper, C. V., Weeks, E. P., & Stuart, J. N. (2005). Control of Tamarix in the western United States: implications for water salvage, wildlife use, and riparian restoration. Environmental Management, 35(3), 231-246 (PDF(link is external)).

Sher, A., & Quigley, M. F. (2013). Tamarix: A case study of ecological change in the American west. Oxford University Press.

  • Bean, D., Dudley, T., & Hultine, K. (2013). Bring on the Beetles. Tamarix: A Case Study of Ecological Change in the American West, 377. (PDF(link is external))
  • Drus, G. M. (2013). Fire ecology of Tamarix. Tamarix: A Case Study of Ecological Change in the American West, 240.