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Examples of Invasive Species

Examples of Invasive Species. Rabbits Introduced to Australia and New Zealand have no natural predators. Tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima. It grows very quickly, and competes aggressively for sunlight in newly developing forests. . Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria , .

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Examples of Invasive Species

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  1. Examples of Invasive Species

  2. Rabbits Introduced to Australia and New Zealand have no natural predators

  3. Tree-of-heaven, Ailanthus altissima • It grows very quickly, and competes aggressively for sunlight in newly developing forests.

  4. Purple Loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria, • Attempts to dig it out usually backfire because purple loosestrife resprouts from root fragments; disturbing the soil just provides more room for it to spread

  5. Kudzu Pueraria lobata • Kudzu is a vine that when left uncontrolled will eventually grow over almost any fixed object in its proximity including other vegetation. Kudzu, over a period of several years will kill trees by blocking the sunlight

  6. Asian Tiger MosquitoAedes albopictus • Arrived accidentally in tires imported from Japan • Can transmit viruses such as Eastern equine encephalitis and West Nile virus

  7. European Gypsy MothLymantria dispar • imported for silk production in 1869 • Defoliates trees

  8. Burmese PythonPython molurus bivittatus • An American alligator and a Burmese python locked in a struggle to prevail in Everglades National Park. • This python appears to be losing, but snakes in similar situations have apparently escaped unharmed, and in other situations pythons have eaten alligators. Photo by Lori Oberhofer, National Park Service.

  9. Northern Snakehead Channa argus • May 2002, a fisher man caught a strange fish in Maryland, and handed over a photograph of it to a government office in Annapolis. The fish that he had caught and re-released in Crofton was soon identified as a Northern Snakehead, native to China http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Pollution-by-Invasive-Species.html

  10. Zebra Mussels Dreissena polymorpha • originated in the Balkans, Poland, and areas within the former Soviet Union. • The species was accidentally introduced into the Great Lakes in 1988 via the ballast water of ships. • By 1990, it had spread to all the Great Lakes. In 1991, zebra mussels escaped the Great Lakes Basin and found their way into the Illinois River, giving them access to the entire Mississippi River Basin. • As of 2002, they had expanded further, and were found from Virginia to New York, bringing the total number of states with documented occurrences to twenty three.

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