Archive for the ‘Invasive species’ Category
Non Native Invasive Landscape Plants
Each of the plants listed bellow, was once considered to be a harmless landscape plant. Unfortunately, many have migrated into the woodlands and are now having a negative impact on the native flora and fauna. The fruits and berries from these plants are not as nutritious as native plants, and native wildlife populations are negatively [...]
September 3, 2009
Tags: Asian privet, Catalpa, Chinaberry, Chinese Tallow, Japanese Silk Tree, mimosa, Nandina, Sycamore Posted in: Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants 
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Value of Natural Biodiversity Services
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Biodiversity can seem to be a complicated issue. The seeming complexity can be furthered by oversimplification leading to misunderstanding at one point, and the exaggeration of the complexity at another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the valuation of biodiversity services.
Biodiversity services, that is, natural biodiversity services as opposed to human efforts to [...]
September 28, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Green services, Natural biodiversity services, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services Posted in: Biodiversity Services, Biodiversity and pest control, Ecology, Environment, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Invasive species, Native habitat, Natural biodiversity services, Nature, Pest control, Preserving biodiversity, Valuing biodiversity services One Comment
Environmental Services |Exotic Vegetation Management
Environmental Services: Exotic Vegetation Management
It’s a fact of life.
Plants move. They migrate from one area to another using a bewildering variety of locomotion methods. Sometimes they travel by hitch hiking on people or animals, sometimes by wind or water, but travel they do.
If there is an invasive plant in your area, the chances are pretty [...]
September 7, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Green services, Habitat Management Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Environmental services, Exotic Vegetation Management, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Green services, Habitat, Habitat Management, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Wildlife habitat No Comments
Our DIRECT Approach to Creating a Backyard Habitat
There are many ways you can approach your backyard habitat project, some of them can be a little confusing. We have developed the following approach. We even created an acronym to make it easy to remember. D-I-R-E-C-T:
Decide>Identify>Remove>Encourage>Construct>Transplant
Decide what you want to accomplish.
Is this to be a bird sanctuary, a small animal habitat, or do you [...]
September 3, 2008
Tags: Add new tag, Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Bird sanctuary, Invasive plants, Native plants, Non native plants, Water feature Posted in: Backyard habitat, Backyard habitat help, Backyard habitat information, Cover, DIRECT aproach, Exotic plants, Food, Habitat, Habitat requirements, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Water, Wildlife, Wildlife habitat One Comment
Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes
Aquatic Biodiversity: Protecting Lakes
With water shortages predicted for parts of the United States, planners are scrambling to figure out just exactly what our water needs will be for the future, and just exactly how to deal with them.
Preserving what we have.
One thing is for certain, we need to preserve the viability of [...]
September 2, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity Services, Exotic aquatic plants, Invasive species Posted in: Biodiversity, Biodiversity Services, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants No Comments
“What harm can a little plant possibly do?”
Invasive Plants and Biodiversity: “What harm can a little plant possibly do?”
I get this question from a lot of people: “What harm can a little plant possibly do?”
The simple answer:
The answer to that question is” Billions of dollars in damage and control efforts, and the most significant loss of biodiversity in history!
We are [...]
September 2, 2008
Tags: Exotic species, Invasive species Posted in: Biodiversity, Exotic aquatic plants, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Non native plants No Comments
Exotic Plants Biodiversity: A Cause and Effect Tale
Exotic Plants, Biodiversity: A Cause and Effect Tale
The following tale is true in most of it’s content, the names have been changed to protect the innocent!
A plant native to Asia sprouts. It is pulled from it’s native waters and shipped to an aquarium wholesaler in South Florida. It is bought by a [...]
September 2, 2008
Tags: Biodiversity, Cause and effect, Chos theory, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants Posted in: Biodiversity, Exotic aquatic plants, Exotic plant migration, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native plants, Non native plants, Real Estate, Water No Comments
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”
Invasive Exotic Plant “Sleeper Cells”.
What was once, a group of “non invasive” exotic landscape plants, have now become destroyers. It happened while we were sleeping. They seemed innocent enough, but something, or some things, have changed, and now we have some serious thinking to do, about an increasingly serious problem.
A growing invasive species problem. [...]
September 2, 2008
Tags: Chinaberry, Exotic plants, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Japanese Silk Tree, Privet, Wisteria Posted in: Biodiversity, Invasive plants, Invasive species, Native habitat, Native plants, Non native plants, Shrubs, Trees, Vines, Water No Comments