RE: Turtles, Geese and Ducks: A Pond Adventure
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It is quite interesting to see that most exotic species end up becoming invasive. WOuld be interesting to see the list of introduced plants/animals that do not outcompete native species once they can find their feet in their new environment.
This is quite refreshing and reeks of lessons in ecology. Thanks for sharing.
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I did some hunting around and came up with this from a website called invasive.org:
"...only a small percent of introduced species ever become invasive. However, it is nearly impossible to predict which species will become invasive and new species are being introduced every day. Some species are present for many years before they exhibit invasive characteristics. Many invasive species go through a "lag phase" in which their populations grow slowly until they reach a size large enough for the population to explode and/or become adapted to the local environment and become invasive."
An interesting idea :)
Thanks for your visit and kind words. This blog was fun. I enjoyed learning about these quite familiar animals (although the red-eared slider was new to me).