http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/2008/08/save-the-rainforests-just-not-in-your-landscape/ For Environment, For Infrastructure Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:42:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/2008/08/save-the-rainforests-just-not-in-your-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Eco Unique Co » Blog Archive » Going Native | Preserving Biodiversity On The Home Front Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:09:12 +0000 http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/?p=3#comment-4 [...] Save the Rainforests, Just Not in Your Landscape! [...] [...] Save the Rainforests, Just Not in Your Landscape! [...]

]]> http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/2008/08/save-the-rainforests-just-not-in-your-landscape/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Eco Unique Co » Blog Archive » Global Biodiversity Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:42:50 +0000 http://burnsenvironmental.com/information/?p=3#comment-3 [...] Rain forests are being lost at alarming rates, but that’s not all. All parts of the planet are losing native plants to non native, invasive plants. These plants are fine in their native regions where natural controls like temperature, humidity, fertility, and natural predators keep them from devouring the region, but if you take those same plants, and move them to other parts of the world where those limitations do not exist, they may destroy the regions natural ecology with more force than a herd of bulldozers! [...] [...] Rain forests are being lost at alarming rates, but that’s not all. All parts of the planet are losing native plants to non native, invasive plants. These plants are fine in their native regions where natural controls like temperature, humidity, fertility, and natural predators keep them from devouring the region, but if you take those same plants, and move them to other parts of the world where those limitations do not exist, they may destroy the regions natural ecology with more force than a herd of bulldozers! [...]

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