Marler, T.E., Lindström, A.J., Terry, L.I., & Deloso, B.E. 2024 Decades of IUCN recommendations for biocontrol of invasive pest on the Guam cycad: you can lead policy-makers to conservation proposals but you cannot make them follow. Journal of Threatened Taxa https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.9110.16.11.26150-261
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Notes: Guam’s cycad known as Cycas micronesica has been threatened by a coaliton of invasive herbivore species, and the armored scale Aulacaspis yasumatsui has emerged as the primary threat. We describe the history of publications in which the IUCN has asserted that this singular conservation action is urgently required to save the cycad species. We then summarize contemporary recommendations to address the ongoing threats to this and other insular cycad species.
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