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AgResearch Magazine - Tiny Insects Take a Big Bite Out of Giant Reed (Oct 2016)

USDA. Agricultural Research Service.

Along the Rio Grande in Texas, tiny insects are taking a big bite out of an invasive weed that competes for limited water resources vital to agriculture and native vegetation. Several years ago, ARS scientists released two insect species as part of a biocontrol program to kill giant reed (Arundo donax).

AQUAPLANT - Giant Reed
Texas A&M University. AgriLife Extension Service. Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences.
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) - Arundo donax
USDA. FS. Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fire Sciences Laboratory.
Giant Reed, Arundo donax (Poaceae)

University of California - Riverside. Center for Invasive Species Research.

Global Invasive Species Database - Arundo donax (grass)
IUCN. Species Survival Commission. Invasive Species Specialist Group.
Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands - Arundo donax

California Invasive Plant Council.

In online book: Bossard, C.C., J.M. Randall, and M.C. Hoshovsky (Editors). 2000. Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands. University of California Press. Berkeley, CA
Invasive Plants: Other Invasive Plants - Giant Reed

Business Queensland (Australia).

Invasive Species Compendium - Arundo donax
CAB International.
Invasive Species Fact Sheet - Giant Reed (PDF | 1.19 MB)

Mississippi State University. Geosystems Research Institute.

See also: Species Factsheets for more fact sheets

Invasive Species: Giant Reed

University of California, Santa Barbara. Marine Science Institute. Riparian Invasions Research Laboratory.

Keys and Fact Sheets: Arundo donax (Giant Reed)
East African Network for Taxonomy.
Noxious Weed Species - Giant Reed

Colorado Department of Agriculture. Conservation Services Division. Noxious Weed Program.

Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER) - Arundo donax
USDA. FS. Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.
PLANTS Database - Giant Reed
USDA. NRCS. National Plant Data Center.
Plants of Hawaii - Arundo donax (Jan 2003) (PDF | 21 KB)
Starr Environmental.
See also: Species reports for selected non-native plants on Maui, Hawaii
Plantwise Technical Factsheet - Giant Reed (Arundo donax)
CABI. Plantwise Knowledge Bank.
Review of Giant Reed (Arundo donax) (PDF | 34 KB)
Alabama Invasive Plant Council.
See also: Alabama Invasive Plant Council Publications
Texas Invasives Database - Arundo donax
TexasInvasives.org.
The Quiet Invasion: A Guide to Invasive Species of the Galveston Bay Area - Giant Reed, Giant Cane

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Galveston Bay Estuary Program; Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC).

Weed Control in Natural Areas in the Western United States: Giant Reed (2013) (PDF | 220 KB)
University of California. Weed Research and Information Center.
See also: Weeds in Natural Areas for more information sheets