Invasive Species Within South Florida Coastal Ecosystems: An Example of a Marginalized Environmental Resource Base

Makowski, Christopher; Finkl, Charles W.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91382-7_1

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“…The Burmese python is an established invasive species with a reproducing population in South Florida. These large constrictors from Southeast Asia were brought to the United States via the reptile pet industry, with Miami being the principal port of entry (Makowski and Finkl, 2019). More than 100,000 snakes were introduced to South Florida, and thousands more were domestically bred (National Park Service, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Population Projections of Invasive Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades

Leatherman,

Leatherman

2023

Journal of Coastal Research

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Population Projections of Invasive Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades

Leatherman,

Leatherman

2023

Journal of Coastal Research

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“…A rapid colonization capability and fast adaptation to new environmental conditions enable invasive plant species to expand throughout various geographic and climatic regions with negative effects on local biodiversity and ecosystem function [1][2][3][4]. Invasive species plant traits, together with their ability to withstand stress conditions facilitated by global change, have a profound impact on the ecosystems in which these species establish [5][6][7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The expansion of invasive species, whether intentionally introduced [7,16] for specific purposes (i.e., sand stabilization) or unintentionally introduced by human activities (travel, transportation of goods etc. ), requires proper monitoring and management during both current and future time frames.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing the Dynamics of Plant Species Invasion in Eastern-Mediterranean Coastal Dunes Using Cellular Automata Modeling and Satellite Time-Series Analyses

2022

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Biological invasion is a major contributor to local and global biodiversity loss, in particular in dune ecosystems. In this study we evaluated current and future cover expansion of the invasive plant species, Heterotheca subaxillaris, and Acacia saligna, in the Mediterranean coastal plain of Israel. This is the first effort to quantify current surface cover of the focal species in this area. We reconstructed plant cover for 1990–2020 using Landsat time series and modeled future potential expansion using cellular automata (CA) modeling. The overall accuracy of the results varied in the range 85–95% and the simulated plant growth using CA varied between 74% and 84%, for A. saligna and H. subaxillaris, respectively. The surface area covered by H. subaxillaris in 2020, 45 years since its introduction, was approximately 81 km2. Acacia saligna covered an area of 74.6 km2, while the vacant area available for potential spread of these two species was 630 km2. Heterotheca subaxillaris showed a mean expansion rate of 107% per decade from 2000 to 2020, while the mean expansion rate of A. saligna was lower, ranging between 48% and 54% within the same time period. Furthermore, based on the plant expansion model simulation we estimated that A. saligna and H. subaxillaris will continue to spread by 60% per decade, on average, from 2020 to 2070, with a maximum growth rate of 80% per decade during 2040–2050. According to future expansion projections, the species will cover all open vacant areas by 2070 (95% of the total vacant area) and most areas will be shared by both species.

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“…Biological methods would be more effective for GAS control, as it is a food source for many birds, in particular water birds like ducks, open bills (Anastomus oscitans), the common scope owl (Otus sunica) and greater coucal (Centropus sinensis), and prey birds such as kites and egrets in rice fields (Jo and Park, 2019). The fish species such as the common carp species (Cyprinus carpio) and Piaractus brachypomus effectively predate on GAS (Makowski and Finkl, 2019). Botanical antisnail preparations such as dried tobacco leaves and neem extracts have been reported to control GAS populations however the control of GAS is costly and challenging (Ding et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Effect of Organic Waste Extracts as Potential Biocontrol of Golden Apple Snail

Khalid¹

2020

JTPP

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Golden apple snail (GAS; Pomacea canaliculata) is a member of the genus for freshwater snails with gill and operculum. It is an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Ampullariidae. This species has been introduced outside its native South American region and considered invasive because of its voracious appetite for paddy and other plants. In this study, the effect of bioresources and commercial waste were experimented to determine their effects on GAS. Garlic (Allium sativum) skins, groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) shells, used coffee (Coffea liberica) grounds and water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) stems were extracted at 100 °C in aqueous system. The potential of these aqueous extracts as nanobiocontrol were investigated through the characterisation of particle size and molluscicidal activity. The results indicated that the aqueous extracts from water spinach (Ipomoea aquatica) in the form of nanoparticle (780.93 ± 2.45 nm) showed more lethal effect on GAS after 5 ± 1 min of exposure compared to used coffee grounds nanoparticle aqueous extract (553.64 ± 1.32 nm) at 45 ± 15 min, garlic skin aqueous extract (1381.34 ± 7.15 nm) at 8 ± 1 min and ground skin aqueous extract (1114.39 ± 10.35 nm) at 7 ± 2 min, respectively. These organic materials have the potential to be developed as biocontrol of GAS.

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Invasive Species Within South Florida Coastal Ecosystems: An Example of a Marginalized Environmental Resource Base

Cited by 5 publications

References 72 publications

Population Projections of Invasive Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades

Population Projections of Invasive Burmese Pythons in the Florida Everglades

Assessing the Dynamics of Plant Species Invasion in Eastern-Mediterranean Coastal Dunes Using Cellular Automata Modeling and Satellite Time-Series Analyses

Effect of Organic Waste Extracts as Potential Biocontrol of Golden Apple Snail

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