Managing plant invasions that pose risk to protected areas: a preventative approach

Autores

  • Sílvia Ziller The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, 88063-513, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0449-9358
  • Alexandre D. Schmidt Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Christopher H. Graves Self-employed
  • Guilherme Ritzmann Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Lucas Felizardo Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Brisa Marciniak Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0507-723X
  • Gabriela Moraes da Silva Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
  • Mariana Adami Borgert Ecology of Biological Invasions, Management and Conservation Lab (LEIMAC) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Departamento de Ecologia e Zoologia, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6697-7381
  • Michele S. Dechoum The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, 88063-513, Brazil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3484-2498

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.67154/BIN.v9.n2.2026.56

Palavras-chave:

invasão biológica, restinga, controle químico, custos de controle, plantas exóticas invasoras

Resumo

Plantas exóticas invasoras nas imediações de unidades de conservação municipais foram eliminadas, ao mesmo tempo que permitiram definir métodos de controle e registrar custos do manejo. Métodos de controle foram definidos para as cinco espécies de maior risco para a restinga, todas introduzidas como plantas ornamentais nas proximidades. Os custos de controle foram estimados a partir do investimento total dividido pelo número de horas trabalhadas e subdivididos em categorias, com registros detalhados a fim de prover futura referência à gestão municipal. Diversos testes de controle foram realizados para Asparagus densiflorus, com melhores resultados obtidos com uma solução de Metsulfuron Metil 0.15g/l + 1% Glifosato + 15 gotas de penetrante + 20 gotas de corante diluídos em água, e para Furcraea foetida, com alta eficácia obtida com o uso de solução de Triclopir em diluição de 2% em água com corante, aplicada na base das folhas e do broto apical. O mesmo método e a mesma solução foram aplicados com sucesso a tocos e na base do broto apical de Yucca filamentosa. Asparagus setaceus foi altamente suscetível a uma solução de 1% Glifosato diluído em água com corante. O custo total do controle foi de US$ 51.894,00, ou US$ 23,25 por hora de trabalho. Mecanismos de financiamento como a política pública de compensação ambiental aplicada a este trabalho podem servir de modelo para adoção por outros municípios e estados brasileiros, assim como por outros países.

Downloads

Não há dados estatísticos.

Referências

Brazil National Invasive Alien Species Database 2023. The Horus Institute for Environmental Conservation and Development. Available at https://bd.institutohorus.org.br

Breaden RC, Armstrong TR, Hinchliffe D 2006. The chemical control of the environmental weed basket asparagus (Asparagus aethiopicus L. cv. sprengeri) in Queensland. Plant Protection Quarterly, 21 (3): 131-133. https://caws.org.nz/PPQ202122/PPQ%2021-3%20pp131-133%20Breaden.pdf

CABI Invasive Species Compendium 2024a. Available at https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.114444#body-ref-ref-59. Accessed on 29 January, 2024.

CABI Invasive Species Compendium 2024b. Available at https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.7409. Accessed on 29 January, 2024.

CABI Invasive Species Compendium 2024c. Available at https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.119056. Accessed on 29 January, 2024.

CABI Invasive Species Compendium 2024d. Available at https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.10648. Accessed on 03 April, 2024.

California Invasive Plant Council 2024. Asparagus aethiopicus risk assessment. Available at https://www.cal-ipc.org/plants/risk/asparagus-aethiopicus-risk/. Accessed on 29 January, 2024.

Dechoum M de S, Ziller SR, 2013. Control techniques for invasive alien plants (Métodos para controle de plantas exóticas invasoras). Biotemas, 26(1): 69-77. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7925.2013v26n1p69

Dudley N, Stolton S, Belokurov A et al. 2010. Natural solutions: protected areas helping people cope with climate change. WWF International, Gland, Switzerland.

Foxcroft LC, Jarošík V, Pyšek P, Richardson DM, Rouget M. 2011. Protected area boundaries as filters of plant invasions. Conservation Biology 25: 400-405. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01617.x

Foxcroft LC, Pysek P, Richardson DM et al. 2014. Chapter 2: The bottom line: impacts of alien plant invasions in protected areas. In: Foxcroft LC, Pysek P, Richardson DM, Genovesi P (Eds.): Plant invasions in protected areas: patterns, problems and challenges. Springer, Dordrecht. p 19-41.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_2

Foxcroft LC, Spear D, Wilgen NJ, McGeoch MA 2019. Assessing the association between pathways of alien plant invaders and their impacts in protected areas. Neobiota 43: 1-25. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.43.29644

García-Mendoza AJ 2001. Revision del genero Furcraea (Agavaceae). (Doctoral dissertation, Tesis de Doctorado en Ciencias (Biologıa), Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mex, DF, Mexico).

Hulme P, Brundu G, Carboni M et al. 2017. Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply chains to prevent plant invasions. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12953

Genovesi P, Monaco A 2014. Guidelines for addressing invasive species in protected areas. In: L.C. Foxcroft et al. (Eds.) Plant invasions in protected areas: patterns, problems and challenges. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology 7. p. 487-506. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_22

Haley AL, Lemieux TA, Piczak ML, et al. 2023. On the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns for the management of invasive species. Environmental Conservation 50(4): 202-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/S037689292300019X

IBGE 2022. Censo demográfico. Available at https://censo2022.ibge.gov.br/panorama/

IUCN 2017. Guidance for interpretation of CBD categories on introduction pathways. Technical note prepared by IUCN for the European Commission. Available at https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/519129/1/N519129CR.pdf

Lewinsohn TM, Prado PI 2002. Biodiversidade Brasileira: síntese do estado atual de conhecimento. São Paulo: Contexto. 176p.

McDonald RI, Formann RT, Kareiva P, Neugarten R, Salzer D, Fischer J 2009. Urban effects, distance, and protected areas in an urbanizing world. Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.06.002

Meyerson LA, Pysek P 2014. Manipulating alien plant species propagule pressure as a prevention strategy for protected areas. In: L.C. Foxcroft et al. (Eds.) Plant invasions in protected areas: patterns, problems and challenges. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology 7. p. 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7750-7_21

Motooka P, Ching L, Nagai G, 2002. Herbicidal weed control methods for pasture and natural areas of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Cooperative Extension Service, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawaii, 36 pp.http://www2.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/wc-8.pdf

Novoa A, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Fried J et al. 2017. Does public awareness increase support for invasive species management? Promising evidence across taxa and landscape types. Biological Invasions 19: 3691-3705. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1592-0

Novoa A, Hirsch H, Castillo M et al 2023. Genetic and morphological insights into the Carpobrotus hybrid complex around the world. NeoBiota 89: 135-160. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.89.109164

Roy HE, Pauchard A, Stoett P, Renard Truong T, Lipinskaya T, Vicente JR 2023. Chapter 1: Introducing biological invasions and the IPBES thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control. In: Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and their Control of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Roy HE, Pauchard A, Stoett P, Renard Truong T (Eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7430723

Seastedt TR, Hobbs RJ, Suding KN 2008. Management of novel ecosystems: are novel approaches required? Frontiers in ecology and the environment. https://doi.org/10.1890/070046

Verloove F 2010. Manual of the Alien Plants of Belgium. Available at https://alienplantsbelgium.myspecies.info/content/note-about-yucca-agavaceae-asparagaceae-wild-belgium. Accessed on 29 January, 2024. https://doi.org/10.25223/brad.n42.2024.a20

PIER, 2013. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: HEAR, University of Hawaii. http://www.hear.org/pier/index.html

University of Florida - Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants 2024. Asparagus aethiopicus - Asparagus fern.

Weeds of Australia 2016. Available at http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/index.htm. Accessed on January 29, 2024.

Ziller SR, Dechoum MS, Neto AFB et al. 2021. Estimating yield and control costs of Pinus spp. invasions - a case study in a municipal protected area in Atlantic Forest, Florianópolis, Brazil. Bioinvasiones 8(1): 27-37.

Downloads

Publicado

2026-09-28

Como Citar

Ziller, S., Schmidt, A. D., Graves, C. H., Ritzmann, G., Felizardo, L., Marciniak, B., … Dechoum, M. S. (2026). Managing plant invasions that pose risk to protected areas: a preventative approach. BIOINVASIONES, 9(2), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.67154/BIN.v9.n2.2026.56

Edição

Seção

Perspectivas práticas