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Invasive, Keystone, Endangered Species

Invasive Species

Keystone Species

Endangered Species

Siberian Chipmunk: Global

Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter: Native

Amur Tiger: Global

Hawaiian Monk Seal: Native

Salmon: Global

Beavers: Native

Background:

  • Scientific name: Homalodisca vitripennis
  • Native to Southeastern U.S
  • Main vectors of the bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa
  • Abundant on citrus
  • Responsible for outbreaks of Pierce's disease

Background:

  • Among the 100 worst invasive species in Europe
  • Introduced by escape from captivity or release
  • may impact native biodiversity
  • Seen in the wild of both Ireland and Northern Ireland

Characteristics:

  • About 12mm long
  • Mostly brown-colored
  • Ivory and black under the abdomen
  • Large smoky-brown wings

Reasons for invasive:

  • impacts Vectors of Pierce's disease

Background:

  • Lives in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
  • Named after its folds of skin that somewhat resembles a monk cowl

Solutions:

  • Track this species
  • Record the interaction
  • Slow the spread

Characteristics:

  • Small squirrel-like
  • Sandy to reddish brown color
  • Bushy brown-grey tail
  • 100g in weight
  • 5 dark longitudinal stripes

Reasons for invasive:

  • Impact on the red squirrels
  • Impact on ground nesting birds

Background:

  • support around 137 species
  • Born in fresh water and travel to the ocean
  • Return to fresh water to reproduce
  • Use the magnetic fields to travel
  • Die after they release eggs

Background:

  • Found throughout the Russian East, Northern China, and the Korean Peninsula
  • Poaching for fur increase after the collaspe of the Soviet Union
  • They have the largest home range of any tiger subspecies
  • Represent the largest un-fragmented tiger population in the world

Solutions:

  • Report all sightings
  • Don't release non-native animals into the wild

Background:

  • Largest rodent in North America
  • Semi-aquatic animals
  • Spend most their time in rivers and streams
  • Eat leaves, roots, cambium and bark

Characteristics:

  • 3 fins: dorsal, caudal and anal
  • 2 paired fins: pectoral and pelvic
  • Overlapping scales

Reasons for keystone:

  • Northwest species struggle because of decreasing salmon
  • Bring important nutrients where they are hatched
  • They produce food for other species

Characteristics:

  • Webbed hind feet
  • Dense fur
  • Flat tail

Reasons for Extinction:

  • Habitat destruction
  • Poached for their fur

Solutions:

  • Protect Salmon
  • Decrease the amount of water drained
  • Preserve clean streams

Reasons for keystone:

  • Plays an important role is biodiversity
  • Many species rely on beaver ponds
  • Produce food for fish and other animals
  • Remove pollutants

Solution:

  • Stop habitat encroachment
  • Stop using tiger parts for medicinal purposes

Solutions:

  • Protection of the beaver
  • Pass laws against harming them

Characteristics:

  • Grey/brown color
  • Large hind flippers
  • Small front flippers
  • Weigh up to 300-600 lbs.
  • Length up to 8ft

Characteristics:

  • Weigh up to 300-600 lbs
  • Thick fur coat
  • Large paws
  • Extra fur around their necks
  • Often reach up to 6-9ft
  • Largest of all tigers

Reasons for Endangerment:

  • Victims of fisheries
  • Prey for sharks
  • Accidentally caught by fisherman

Solutions:

  • Create acts to protect the seals (Endangered Species Act)

Golden Bamboo: Plant

Strangler Figs: Plant

Venus Flytrap: Plant

Sources:

  • WorldWildlife.org. World Wildlife Fund. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/amur-tiger>.

Background:

  • Native to Asia
  • Introduced to the US in 1882
  • Common names: Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo
  • Sciencticif name: Phyllostachys aurea
  • Introduced as an ornamental
  • Member of the grass family
  • Provides noise barriers
  • Grown for its screening abilities

Background:

  • Gather nutrients from gases in the air and nutrients in the soil
  • They are native to select boggy areas in North Carolina
  • "Siberian Tiger: An Endangered Species." Tigers in Crisis. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://www.tigersincrisis.com/siberian_tiger.htm

Background:

  • 100's of species of figs
  • Begin in the top of other trees from the dropping of the seeds
  • Strangles the host tree
  • Robs that tree of sunlight and nutrients
  • Rapidly grows upward

Characteristics:

  • Can reach up to 30ft
  • Stems are typically green
  • Turns yellow in sunlight
  • Short swollen internodes at the base
  • Leaves are roughly 15cm long
  • 1 or 2 cm wide

  • "Animals - Animal Pictures - Wild Animal Facts - Nat Geo Wild - National Geographic." National Geographic. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/>.

Reasons for invasive:

  • Fast growing
  • Quick colonization
  • finds its way out of confinement to infect nearby ares

Solution:

  • Limit growth
  • Removal of existing plants
  • Prevent seed spread

Characteristics:

  • grow up to 148ft
  • canopy trees
  • contains many waxyleaves 1.5-3 inches
  • root systems up to 30ft
  • light colored
  • "Hawaiian Monk Seal." The Animal Files. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://www.theanimalfiles.com/mammals/seals_sea_lions/hawiian-monk-seal.html>.

Reasons for keystone:

  • Important to the animals of the rainforest
  • A supply of food for 70% of animals in rainforests

Solutions:

  • Protect the figs
  • Pass laws

Characteristics:

  • Leaves with short, stiff hair
  • The leaves will enclose
  • The inside of the leaves are a pinkish color while in rest of the plant is green
  • Each seed in genetically unique
  • Do not eat meat
  • "If You Support Teaching Only about ANIMALS in Schools - DON'T GO HERE!" Botanical Society of America, Leading Scientists and Educators since 1893. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://botany.org/>.

Reasons for endangered:

  • People's fascination, they collect them

Solution:

  • They are grown in greenhouses
  • "Venus Flytrap." Venus Flytap Center. Web. 1 Dec. 2014. <http://www.vensusflytrapcenter.com/venus-flytrap-facts/>.

  • "Invasive Species: Plants - Golden Bamboo (Phyllostachys Aurea)." Invasive Species: Plants - Golden Bamboo (Phyllostachys Aurea). Web. 2 Dec. 2014. <http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/goldenbamboo.shtml>.

  • "Golden Bamboo: Invasive Plant Management Plan - Florida Invasive Plant Initiative in the Parks." Golden Bamboo: Invasive Plant Management Plan - Florida Invasive Plant Initiative in the Parks. Web. 2 Dec. 2014. <http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/parks/bamboo.html>.

  • "Database Updates | Invasive Species." Database Updates | Invasive Species. Web. 2 Dec. 2014. <http://invasives.biodiversityireland.ie/species-alert-chipmunk/>.

Sources:

  • "Invasive Species: Animals - Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca Vitripennis)." Invasive Species: Animals - Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (Homalodisca Vitripennis). Web. 2 Dec. 2014. <http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/animals/gwss.shtml>.
  • "School of Environmental and Forest Sciences." School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.cfr.washington.edu/>.

  • "Six Primary Producers of the Tropical Rainforest." Bright Hub. 7 May 2010. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.brighthub.com/environment/science-environmental/articles/70738.aspx>.
  • "Strangler Figs." Blue Planet Biomes. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/strangler_fig
  • "Beavers - A Keystone Species in North America." Beavers - A Keystone Species in North America. Web. 3 Dec. 2014. <http://www.beaversolutions.com/beavers_keystone
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