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For animals, sure, things are pretty good. For plants things kinda suck. Lots of invasive species have taken root over the last 200yr and are holding down nat
by throwaway0a5e 5y ago
For animals, sure, things are pretty good.
For plants things kinda suck. Lots of invasive species have taken root over the last 200yr and are holding down native species.
- jmclnx 5y agoI do not know why you were down-voted, but this is true. I those invasive vines I would see everywhere in the deep south are starting to appear here. Probably due to climate change. Never mind about the various water plants coking out native water plants.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoHydrilla verticellata, Lemna minor, and phragmites are coming for your cattails and Elodea :(. All of the poor fish will not survive.
- gwbas1c 5y agoAbout half of the trees in a New England forest are "invasive." They've been here so long someone like me doesn't even know what's natural and what isn't. Earthworms are also invasive in New England. They're everywhere, ubiquitous, and apparently the natural forest doesn't have them.
- kibwen 5y agoEarthworms would have once been native to New England, they were just killed by the advancing glaciers of the pleistocene epoch, which ended 12,000 years ago. They've been advancing northward slowly ever since (though other species were brought by colonists).
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoA cultural shift towards eating invasive species or both flora and fauna would really help. Use that human tendency to cause extirpation for good.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThat works for animals to a degree but you can't eat chestnut blight.
- driverdan 5y agoAlso disease and blights have decimated certain trees like Elm and Chestnut.