Invasive animal species

Invasive Species A new and aggressive species is introduced to a new environment, it breeds very quickly and spreads like a wildfire, it takes over the new environment and makes it difficult for other species to live there. This is call an invasive species. There are many invasive species in the world but the ones that are some of the most popular are: Asian Carp, Rabbits, and Cane Toads. The Asian Carp is native to Eastern Russia and China, they were introduced to North America and Europe.…

Invasive species are a problem both economically and environmentally. One example of an invasive species is the zebra mussel. In this essay you will learn what the zebra mussel is, why we don’t want it in Iowa, and how this invasive species is being controlled. The zebra mussel is a freshwater mollusc. It is the size of a fingernail, but can grow up to two inches. Zebra mussels get their name from the striped pattern that appears on them. The zebra mussel has a D-shaped shell. It was introduced…

affect many other things as well. It is like a chain reaction. One thing affects another thing, which affects another thing, and that thing affects another thing. First of all, what is Overpopulation and how does it occur? Overpopulation occurs when a species has a population larger than the ecosystem can support. Resources become limited and drastic measures have to be made. However the food chains can help with overpopulation. Often times, overpopulation…

INTRODUCTION Background Invasive species are defined as non-native species that invade ecosystems and propagate to a point where harm is induced on native species. Types and abundance of harm caused to native ecosystems can vary greatly depending on various biotic and abiotic factors. Although the amount of accredited research devoted to aquatic invasive species (AIS) doesn’t reach far beyond the past few decades, the natural history of invasive species surely does (Pysek, 2010). A great deal…

disrupt and also alter our ecosystems. When you take a look around our environment, most living organisms that you see were introduced primarily by human activity. Most benefactors are due to the disrupts on the ecosystems which comes from invasive species. Invasive species are a non-native organisms (or plant) alien to an ecosystem. These invaders are capable of sweeping across aggressively into a habitat and taking over the resources like food, sunlight, nutrients, water, and space. Their…

October 22nd, 2014 An exotic predator's ecological impact on Florida ecosystems The sub-tropical environment of southern Florida supports a wide variety of introduced exotic reptile and amphibian species. The majority of these species were introduced by human activities. Irresponsible keepers, animal dealers, and the international trade has released large predators like African and Asian pythons, South American tegu lizards, and African monitor lizards into new ecosystems, which have the…

Description of area: Larchwood Lake can be found in central New York, outside of Laurens New York. Buried in the woods, Larchwood Lake was a Boy Scout camp in the early 1960’s. Around 1988 the Boy Scouts sold the land to residents creating the Larchwood Lake Homeowners Association. The lake was manually increased to twice its size. Today the lake has a long almost swan like shape. According to The Biological Field Station Larchwood Lake is “near pristine.” The lake is not that deep, it has a…

The Brainerd lakes area is a beautiful tourist attraction in central Minnesota. Thousands of people come to the huge resorts and their elaborate lake houses every summer. Many people come to fish as well which is one of the main attractions to the place I grew up in. Zebra mussels have been invading some of the lakes in our area now which is alarming. They are most prominent in Gull Lake which is a very large tourist lake which has 12 resorts and 5 separate restaurants that are accessible by…

Impact The environmental issue is how the Brown Tree Snakes are making native species extinct. This can affect the local, regional and global scale in multiple ways. This problem affects the local level because the snakes eat the species on the island weakening and eventually change the ecosystem and cause power outages for residents on Guam. This problem also affects them on a regional level because in the future the snakes might spread to other regional island and also weaken their ecosystems…

as well as coffee, macadamia, passion fruit, and pineapples are seen as icons of Hawaii, yet they aren’t native to Hawaii. Even though these species aren’t native to Hawaii, coffee, macadamia, passion fruit, and pineapples do not pose a series threat to the native ecosystems of Hawaii, like the strawberry guava. Strawberry guava is an invasive alien species to Hawaii and can be managed through mechanical control, herbicide application, and biological control to prevent further dispersal and…