6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This document is an output from a project funded through the Forestry Research Programme of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) for the benefit of developing countries. The views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID. Project R4742 Forestry Research Programme.
Over the years financial assistance for the setting-up and management of the databases and reprints' aquisition has been provided either directly by Berthe Guillod-Blanchard and Max Wirz or indirectly in the form of flexible painting and decorating jobs provided by Curt and Charlotte Binggeli, Siv Gunnarsson and several work agencies while subsistence and rough lodgings have been supplied by a wide number of people. Many thanks to many individuals who willingly or unwittingly bent the rules to facilitate a world review of invasive woody plants.
The assistance of Curt Binggeli in setting up the database was essential. Long-term intellectual support and encouragement by Alan Hamilton, Amyan Macfadyen and Brian S. Rushton made this project possible. Library facilities were kindly provided by The University of Ulster at Coleraine (special thanks to Linda Southall), Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire de Lausanne, Département de Géobotanique de l'Université de Lausanne, Queen's University of Belfast, University of Oxford, University College North Wales and Brian S. Rushton. Numerous colleagues kindly supplied reprints of their publications and others provided essential feedback on some species accounts.
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