Restoring Balance: Using Exotic Species to Control Invasive Exotic Species

Hoddle, Mark S.

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00249.x

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“…on Caribbean islands, has spread to Florida where it threatens native Opuntia spp. Scientists fear its spread to Mexico, where it would threaten > 50 endangered native Opuntia spp., significant cultural resources for Mexicans used in food, fodder, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, and the host plant for the cochineal dye industry (Zimmermann et al 2000;Hoddle 2004).…”

Section: Biological Invasions and Cultural Landscapesmentioning

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Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems

2008

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SUMMARYStudy of the ecological and economic effects of invasive species has paralleled their progressively pervasive influence worldwide, yet their cultural impacts remain largely unexamined and therefore unrecognized. Unlike biological systems, where the ecological consequences of biological invasions are primarily negative, from an ethnoscientific standpoint, invasive species' impacts on cultural systems span a range of effects. Biological invasions affect cultural groups in myriad, often unpredictable and at times contradictory ways. This review groups case studies into a conceptual matrix suggesting three categorically different cultural impacts of invasive species. Culturally impoverishing invasive species precipitate the loss or replacement of culturally important native species and their associated cultural practices. Culturally enriching invasive species augment cultural traditions, through their inclusion in lexicons, narratives, foods, pharmacopoeias and other tangible and intangible ends. Culturally facilitating invasive species can provide continuity and reformulation of traditional ethnobiological practices. An understanding of the processes by which invasive biota become culturally enriching, facilitating, or impoverishing can contribute to articulating interdisciplinary programmes aimed at simultaneously conserving biological and cultural diversity.

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Section: Biological Invasions and Cultural Landscapesmentioning

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Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems

2008

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“…Ideally, successful control of invasive species limits collateral damage to native species (Simberloff and Stilling 1996;Kotanen 1997), and many control or restoration strategies rely on differences between native and non-native species to avoid impacts on native populations (Hoddle 2004). Yet, strategies likely to succeed against exotic perennial grasses are also likely to negatively influence native grass populations.…”

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Not novel, just better: competition between native and non-native plants in California grasslands that share species traits

Corbin

D’Antonio

2010

Plant Ecol

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Invasive plants have often been shown to possess novel traits such as the ability to fix nitrogen, access unused resource pools, or the ability to exude allelopathic chemicals. We describe a case of a successful invasion where the native and non-native species are very similar in most life-history characteristics including their growth forms, lifespan, and degree of summertime activity. Data from permanent transects suggest that exotic perennial grass invaders can establish into intact native-dominated grasslands, achieving cover values from 6 to 71% over several years. We also established a 4-year competition experiment to test the effect of each group-the native and non-native perennial grasses-on the other. Competitive interactions were found to consistently favor the non-native grasses: native perennial grass productivity was significantly lower in plots with exotic perennial grasses as compared to plots without exotic perennial grasses. By contrast, productivity of the exotic perennial grasses was not reduced by the presence of the native perennial grasses. These results suggest that competitive ability, rather than a unique trait, has contributed to the success of the exotic perennial grasses in our system. Management tools to control exotic perennial grass invasions are likely to negatively influence native perennial grass populations, as strategies that succeed against the invasive species may kill or reduce the native species as well.

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“…However, regarding invasive alien plants, it appears that only some very localized removals have been completed (Capdevila-Argüelles et al, 2005). Biological control is an effective and valuable tool to control invasion through releasing natural enemies or competitors from the invader's native range (Hoddle, 2004;Messing and Wright, 2006), though usually with risk of negative impacts of the introduced biological control agents on local ecosystems (Henneman and Memmott, 2001;Messing and Wright, 2006).…”

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Eradicating invasive Spartina alterniflora with alien Sonneratia apetala and its implications for invasion controls

Chen

Liao

Liu

et al. 2014

Ecological Engineering

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Restoring Balance: Using Exotic Species to Control Invasive Exotic Species

Cited by 213 publications

References 81 publications

Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems

Biological invasions and biocultural diversity: linking ecological and cultural systems

Not novel, just better: competition between native and non-native plants in California grasslands that share species traits

Eradicating invasive Spartina alterniflora with alien Sonneratia apetala and its implications for invasion controls

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