The BCTS system was established to help prioritise weed targets in South Africa for biocontrol. For information on the development and application of the system see papers below:
Paper 1, Downey et al. 2021
A review of existing prioritisation schemes and development of a system for South Africa. This paper identified and reviewed twelve previous systems developed to prioritise plant targets for biocontrol. This review streamlined the development and testing of the BCTS system in South Africa.
Paper 2, Paterson et al. 2021
The South African Biological Control Target Selection System. This paper outlined the BCTS system. The BCTS is built of the previous systems and uses thirteen attributes to present the highest predictive powers to rank potential target plants as biocontrol targets.
Paper 3, Canavan et al. 2021
A tool to identify the next targets for biological control in South Africa and set priorities for resource allocation. This paper applies the BCTS to 299 target plants listed on the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act (NEMBA) in South Africa. A list of top priorities species are presented that represent good investments for biocontrol when funds are available.