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Northern Territory Weed Risk Management System User Guide

Details:

Title

Northern Territory Weed Risk Management System User Guide,

Other title

NTWRMS User Guide,

Creator

Setterfield, S, Ferdinands, K, Rossiter-Rachor, N, Elliott, L, Northern Territory. Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Weed Management Branch, Rangelands Division,

Collection

E-Publications, E-Books, PublicationNT, User guide,

Date

2022-12-19,

Abstract

Decisions on weed management have historically been frequently based on perceptions or emotions which is not necessarily a sound basis for determining long-term strategic priorities. -- In line with other jurisdictions in Australia, a risk-based, repeatable tool to help make decisions about individual species has been developed called the Northern Territory Weed Risk Management System (NTWRMS). The system is based on the National Post-Border WRM Protocol. -- pg. iv,

Notes

Made available by via Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT), Last updated 19 December 2022,

Table of contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, pg. iv -- DEFINITIONS pg. 2 -- BACKGROUND pg. 4 -- What is the Northern Territory Weed Risk Management System? pg. 4 -- Why do we need a Weed Risk Management System? pg. 4 -- How is the NTWRMS different from other systems in use in Australia? pg. 5 -- Brief history of the development of the NTWRMS pg. 5 -- Technical Committee pg. 5 -- Weed risk assessment process pg. 6 -- SPECIES ASSESSMENT pg. 8 -- Assessment structure pg. 8 -- Guide to answering questions pg. 8 -- Interpreting the scores pg. 8 -- Scoring pg. 9 -- Bands pg. 10 -- WEED RISK pg. 11 -- A) INVASIVENESS pg. 12 -- B) IMPACTS pg. 19 -- C) POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION pg. 26 -- FEASIBILITY OF CONTROL pg. 30 -- A) CONTROL COSTS pg. 30 -- B) CURRENT DISTRIBUTION pg. 35 -- C) PERSISTENCE pg. 36 -- DETERMINING PRIORITIES pg. 39 -- Weed Management Matrix pg. 40 -- General Management Actions pg. 41 -- REFERENCES pg. 43 -- APPENDICES pg. 45,

Language

English,

Subject

Environmental aspects, Weeds control, Northern Territory, User guide,

Publisher name

Northern Territory Government,

Place of publication

Palmerston,

Edition

Version 1.5,

Series

User guide,

Format

iv, 46 pages ; tables, colour illustrations ; 30 cm,

File type

application/pdf,

ISBN

9781743500873,

Use

Attribution International 4.0 (CC BY 4.0),

Copyright owner

Northern Territory Government,

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/,

Related links

https://depws.nt.gov.au/,

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/895153,

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/895154