Purchase Solution

Exotic Species Impact on Native Plants and Animals

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Use Internet to access your state department of agriculture or fish and game department to find an example of one exotic species (plant or animal) that has been introduced into your area that is having negative effects on the native plants and animals. Often these will be listed under the state fish and game department, or your state's agricultural extension service. Describe how that organism was introduced and what part of the world it came from. Describe the negative impact the organism is having on the natural world of your area. Finally, discuss what is being done to control this species and suggest what might have been done differently to prevent this introduction.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

Exotic species impact on native plants and animals is discussed in the solution.

Solution Preview

The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) is a small organism originally found in Russia. The animal was transported to Michigan by way of ships and reproduced in Lake St. Clair. The mussels have spread to all Great Lakes and to the Mississippi, Tennessee, Hudson, and Ohio River Basins. They reproduce and live on boats, water-intake pipes, buoys, docks, piers, plants, and slow moving animals such as clams, crayfish, and turtles.

While there has been one positive aspect to the arrival of the zebra mussel, where native species eat the young, migrating ducks ...

Solution provided by:
Lisa Johnson, MSA
Education
  • BSc, Central Michigan University
  • MSA, Central Michigan University
  • Teacher Certification, Concordia University
Recent Feedback
  • "Thanks Lisa, this response was very helpful!"
  • "Thank you for this information! "
  • "Great...Thank you Lisa"
  • "GREAT JOB!!!"
  • "Great help Thank you"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Labor Comfort Measures

Do you know how to comfort someone in labor?

The Plant Body

This quiz will test your knowledge of the anatomy of a common plant.

BioChemistry Basics

This Quiz will test your knowledge of the amino acids used in biological systems

Parts of the Brain

This quiz will test your knowledge on different areas of the brain.

Infant Development: Sleep

How much do you know about infant sleep? Test your knowledge with this quiz.

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Human Impact on Sonoran Desert

    When four wheel drive vehicles are driven across the land, it disturbs the soil and less vegetation grows to support the native animals. Many plants are rare and poaching has increased.

  • Speciation and Extinction

    3) discuss three reasons that exotic species are often able to drive native species to extinction.

  • Grass Carp Biocontrol & the Ecosystem

    What reduction factors and which growth factors can impact ecosystem balance? • What are two ways in which the invasive species and native species impact ecosystem balance? • How can native and invasive species affect succession?

  • Discussing the Pennsylvania Ecosystem

    The article goes on to talk about the challenges to the forest ecosystem of PA such as invasion of non-native species, fragmentation and deer over-abundance.

  • Defining and Measuring Biodiversity

    The demand for these items result in plants and animals being destroyed or killed, decreasing biodiversity. Humans have also introduced plants and animals that are non-indigenous to an area.

  • Discussing Concepts in Ecology

    For example, omnivores such as grizzly bears eat both animals and plants. They will also, at times, eat each other.

  • Threatened, endangered and extinct species

    These species put native species in jeopardy by preying on them leading to endangerment. 3.

  • Food Chain, Food Web, and Lake Michigan

    The natural population control that is missing from the Great Lakes Basin is a predator that could have culled the impact that sea lamprey's had on native species after their introduction.

  • Conservation Efforts - Biodiversity

    Department of Agriculture (USDA) website: www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/index.shtml According to the website, Invasive species are plants, animals, or pathogens that are non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration and whose introduction

View More Related Solutions